diff --git a/backend/scripts/soak.py b/backend/scripts/soak.py
index 2ca3bef..a22a29d 100644
--- a/backend/scripts/soak.py
+++ b/backend/scripts/soak.py
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ log = logging.getLogger("soak")
 # -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 # Host safety
 #
-# This host runs critical services that have nothing to do with fluksio. The
+# The host may run critical services that have nothing to do with fluksio. The
 # allow-list is checked first, the compose label second, and both before
 # anything is executed — a typo must never become a restart of someone else's
 # database.