diff --git a/docs/notices.md b/docs/notices.md
index 304f11b..8dcb5f0 100644
--- a/docs/notices.md
+++ b/docs/notices.md
@@ -23,15 +23,16 @@ administrator, not the site administrator who installed the plugin, who sees the
 
 ## Rendering them yourself
 
-`Notices\Queue::option_name()` is public, so you can render the queue yourself without replacing
-anything. The value is an `array<string,string>` keyed `slug:type` — `give-recurring:merge`, for
+`Absorber::notices()->option_name()` tells you where the queue is kept, so you can render it
+yourself without replacing anything — and it answers for whichever queue the site is running, so a
+rebound implementation keeping its notices elsewhere still gives you the right name. The value is an `array<string,string>` keyed `slug:type` — `give-recurring:merge`, for
 example — and the messages may contain markup; the default rendering passes them through
 `wp_kses_post()`, so a link, emphasis or a list survives while scripts and event handlers are
 stripped. Paragraphs come from `wpautop()`, so send the message unwrapped and let a blank line
 break it — a `<p>` of your own is left as it is rather than nested inside another.
 
 ```php
-use Nexcess\PluginAbsorber\Notices\Queue;
+use Nexcess\PluginAbsorber\Absorber;
 
 add_action( 'admin_init', function () {
     // Gates the read, not just the delete: `admin_init` fires for every logged-in user, and
@@ -41,7 +42,8 @@ add_action( 'admin_init', function () {
         return;
     }
 
-    $notices = get_site_option( Queue::option_name(), [] );
+    $option  = Absorber::notices()->option_name();
+    $notices = get_site_option( $option, [] );
 
     if ( ! is_array( $notices ) || ! $notices ) {
         return;
@@ -51,7 +53,7 @@ add_action( 'admin_init', function () {
         my_plugin_enqueue_notice( $key, $message );
     }
 
-    delete_site_option( Queue::option_name() );
+    delete_site_option( $option );
 } );
 ```
 
diff --git a/src/Notices/Contracts/Queue_Interface.php b/src/Notices/Contracts/Queue_Interface.php
index e3cf04a..e2b423e 100644
--- a/src/Notices/Contracts/Queue_Interface.php
+++ b/src/Notices/Contracts/Queue_Interface.php
@@ -85,4 +85,20 @@ public function queue_dependency_notice( Sub_Plugin $sub_plugin ): void;
 	 * @return void
 	 */
 	public function render(): void;
+
+	/**
+	 * Where these notices are kept, so a host can render them itself without replacing the queue.
+	 *
+	 * On the contract rather than on the default implementation, and an instance method rather than
+	 * a static one, because the honest answer depends on which queue a site is running: an
+	 * implementation bound in place of the default keeps its notices where it likes, and a host
+	 * reading a name off the default class would read an option nothing writes to.
+	 *
+	 * @since 1.0.0
+	 *
+	 * @throws Config_Exception When no hook prefix has been set.
+	 *
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	public function option_name(): string;
 }
diff --git a/src/Notices/Queue.php b/src/Notices/Queue.php
index dd34180..b122a0c 100644
--- a/src/Notices/Queue.php
+++ b/src/Notices/Queue.php
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
  * bypasses every binding a host made, and it is the one a test or a stray `new` reaches for.
  *
  * A host already using stellarwp/admin-notices can bind its own implementation of Queue_Interface
- * and read the same option, whose name is `self::option_name()`.
+ * and read the same option, whose name is `option_name()`.
  *
  * @since 1.0.0
  */
@@ -178,16 +178,14 @@ public function render(): void {
 	}
 
 	/**
-	 * The option name backing the queue. Read it directly to render these notices yourself.
-	 *
 	 * @since 1.0.0
 	 *
 	 * @throws Config_Exception When no hook prefix has been set.
 	 *
 	 * @return string
 	 */
-	public static function option_name(): string {
-		return Store::option_name();
+	public function option_name(): string {
+		return $this->store->option_name();
 	}
 
 	/**
diff --git a/src/Notices/Store.php b/src/Notices/Store.php
index 23297db..e7890c0 100644
--- a/src/Notices/Store.php
+++ b/src/Notices/Store.php
@@ -24,9 +24,13 @@
  */
 class Store {
 	/**
-	 * The option name backing the queue. Read it directly to render these notices yourself — and
-	 * read it from here rather than composing it, since the hook prefix is normalised on its way
-	 * into a storage key.
+	 * The option name backing the queue. Read it from here rather than composing it, since the hook
+	 * prefix is normalised on its way into a storage key.
+	 *
+	 * An instance method, not a static one: it is the answer for *this* store, and a host that binds
+	 * a queue keeping its notices somewhere else has to be able to give a different one. A static
+	 * would answer for the default implementation whatever the site actually uses, which is the
+	 * wrong answer stated with confidence.
 	 *
 	 * @since 1.0.0
 	 *
@@ -34,7 +38,7 @@ class Store {
 	 *
 	 * @return string
 	 */
-	public static function option_name(): string {
+	public function option_name(): string {
 		return Config::get_option_name( 'notices' );
 	}
 
@@ -50,7 +54,7 @@ public static function option_name(): string {
 	public function all(): array {
 		// Outside multisite `get_site_option()` is `get_option()`, so this reads back whatever
 		// put() wrote on either install type.
-		$queue = get_site_option( self::option_name(), [] );
+		$queue = get_site_option( $this->option_name(), [] );
 
 		if ( ! is_array( $queue ) ) {
 			return [];
@@ -82,7 +86,7 @@ public function put( string $key, string $message ): void {
 		// `update_option( $option, $value, false )`, or `add_option( $option, $value, '', false )`
 		// the first time — either way autoload is off, which is exactly what this queue wants: it
 		// is empty on almost every request and only ever read in the admin.
-		update_site_option( self::option_name(), $queue );
+		update_site_option( $this->option_name(), $queue );
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -94,6 +98,6 @@ public function put( string $key, string $message ): void {
 	 */
 	public function clear(): void {
 		// Outside multisite `delete_site_option()` is `delete_option()`.
-		delete_site_option( self::option_name() );
+		delete_site_option( $this->option_name() );
 	}
 }
diff --git a/tests/_support/Spy_Queue.php b/tests/_support/Spy_Queue.php
index 2b42400..da97a1b 100644
--- a/tests/_support/Spy_Queue.php
+++ b/tests/_support/Spy_Queue.php
@@ -21,6 +21,16 @@
  * @since 1.0.0
  */
 class Spy_Queue implements Queue_Interface {
+	/**
+	 * The option this spy would keep notices in, if it kept any.
+	 *
+	 * Deliberately not the default queue's name: a test that reads the real option while a spy is
+	 * bound is reading somewhere nothing was written, and should say so rather than agree.
+	 *
+	 * @var string
+	 */
+	public $option = 'spy_queue_notices';
+
 	/**
 	 * Slugs handed to queue_merge_notice(), in order.
 	 *
@@ -82,4 +92,11 @@ public function queue_dependency_notice( Sub_Plugin $sub_plugin ): void {
 	public function render(): void {
 		++$this->render_calls;
 	}
+
+	/**
+	 * @return string
+	 */
+	public function option_name(): string {
+		return $this->option;
+	}
 }
diff --git a/tests/_support/Traits/WithNoticeQueue.php b/tests/_support/Traits/WithNoticeQueue.php
index 7fee4b6..fac0b17 100644
--- a/tests/_support/Traits/WithNoticeQueue.php
+++ b/tests/_support/Traits/WithNoticeQueue.php
@@ -10,17 +10,21 @@
 namespace Nexcess\PluginAbsorber\Tests\Support\Traits;
 
 use Nexcess\PluginAbsorber\Exceptions\Config_Exception;
-use Nexcess\PluginAbsorber\Notices\Queue;
+use Nexcess\PluginAbsorber\Config;
+use Nexcess\PluginAbsorber\Notices\Store;
 
 /**
  * One shared way to read and clear the queue, for every test that only cares about what landed in it.
  *
- * The name comes from `Queue::option_name()` rather than from a literal, because the literal was
+ * The name comes from the bound `Notices\Store` rather than from a literal, because the literal was
  * copied into three unrelated test classes: renaming the option — or the segment `Config` builds
  * between the host's prefix and the key — then means finding all of them, and the one that is missed
  * asserts against an option nothing writes, which reads as "no notice was queued" rather than as a
  * failure to keep up.
  *
+ * The store rather than the queue, deliberately: this reads where the *default* queue keeps its
+ * notices, so a test that binds its own queue and then finds nothing here has learnt something.
+ *
  * A test *about* the name pins it against a literal instead, and keeps its own reader. Reading it
  * from here as well would move both sides of that assertion together.
  *
@@ -86,7 +90,9 @@ protected function clear_notices(): void {
 	 */
 	private function notice_option_name(): ?string {
 		try {
-			return Queue::option_name();
+			$store = Config::get_container()->get( Store::class );
+
+			return $store instanceof Store ? $store->option_name() : null;
 		} catch ( Config_Exception $exception ) {
 			return null;
 		}
diff --git a/tests/unit/Notices/QueueTest.php b/tests/unit/Notices/QueueTest.php
index 8551bd4..8cbb5fd 100644
--- a/tests/unit/Notices/QueueTest.php
+++ b/tests/unit/Notices/QueueTest.php
@@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ public function test_the_option_is_keyed_by_the_hook_prefix(): void {
 		Config_State::reset();
 		Config::set_hook_prefix( 'woo' );
 
-		$this->assertSame( self::OPTION_FOR_OTHER_PREFIX, Queue::option_name() );
+		$this->assertSame( self::OPTION_FOR_OTHER_PREFIX, $this->make_queue()->option_name() );
 
 		$this->make_queue()->queue_merge_notice( $this->make_sub_plugin() );
 
diff --git a/tests/unit/Notices/StoreTest.php b/tests/unit/Notices/StoreTest.php
index 464c0eb..2e5f32b 100644
--- a/tests/unit/Notices/StoreTest.php
+++ b/tests/unit/Notices/StoreTest.php
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ public function test_the_option_is_keyed_by_the_hook_prefix(): void {
 		Config_State::reset();
 		Config::set_hook_prefix( 'woo' );
 
-		$this->assertSame( self::OPTION_WOO, Store::option_name() );
+		$this->assertSame( self::OPTION_WOO, ( new Store() )->option_name() );
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ public function test_the_option_name_normalises_the_hook_prefix(): void {
 		Config_State::reset();
 		Config::set_hook_prefix( 'Give-Core' );
 
-		$this->assertSame( self::OPTION_NORMALISED, Store::option_name() );
+		$this->assertSame( self::OPTION_NORMALISED, ( new Store() )->option_name() );
 
 		( new Store() )->put( 'give-recurring:merge', 'Bundled now.' );