diff --git a/eventsourcingdb/src/test/java/io/eventsourcingdb/CancellationTest.java b/eventsourcingdb/src/test/java/io/eventsourcingdb/CancellationTest.java
index bf8204f..08ce0a2 100644
--- a/eventsourcingdb/src/test/java/io/eventsourcingdb/CancellationTest.java
+++ b/eventsourcingdb/src/test/java/io/eventsourcingdb/CancellationTest.java
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 import java.time.Duration;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
-import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.concurrent.CancellationException;
 import java.util.concurrent.Executors;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
@@ -24,6 +23,12 @@
 // the thread that makes it, and a stream by closing it. Either way, the
 // request then ends with a CancellationException, so that an aborted read can
 // be told apart from a complete one.
+//
+// The timeout of this class must not cover starting a container: if it
+// interrupts Testcontainers while it looks for Docker, Testcontainers never
+// tries again, and every later test that needs a container fails. Tests that
+// need EventSourcingDB itself start it in @BeforeEach elsewhere, e.g. in
+// WriteEventsTest, which this timeout does not cover.
 @Timeout(10)
 class CancellationTest {
     static List<Operation> all() {
@@ -124,29 +129,6 @@ void aStreamThatIsClosedBeforeItStartsDoesNotSendTheRequest(Operation operation)
         }
     }
 
-    @Test
-    void aWriteOfAnInterruptedThreadWritesNothing() {
-        var container = Database.start();
-        try {
-            var client = container.getClient();
-            var candidate = new EventCandidate(
-                    "https://www.eventsourcingdb.io", "/test", "io.eventsourcingdb.test", Map.of("value", 23));
-
-            Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
-            try {
-                assertThrows(CancellationException.class, () -> client.writeEvents(List.of(candidate)));
-            } finally {
-                assertTrue(Thread.interrupted());
-            }
-
-            try (var events = client.readEvents("/", new ReadEventsOptions(true))) {
-                assertEquals(0, events.count());
-            }
-        } finally {
-            container.stop();
-        }
-    }
-
     @Test
     void anInterruptEndsAWriteWhoseResponseStopsInTheMiddle() throws InterruptedException {
         try (var server = FakeServer.start((exchange, fakeServer) -> {
diff --git a/eventsourcingdb/src/test/java/io/eventsourcingdb/WriteEventsTest.java b/eventsourcingdb/src/test/java/io/eventsourcingdb/WriteEventsTest.java
index 9072ac5..e8a3550 100644
--- a/eventsourcingdb/src/test/java/io/eventsourcingdb/WriteEventsTest.java
+++ b/eventsourcingdb/src/test/java/io/eventsourcingdb/WriteEventsTest.java
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
 import java.util.List;
 import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Optional;
+import java.util.concurrent.CancellationException;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeEach;
 import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
@@ -70,6 +71,20 @@ void writesMultipleEvents() {
         assertEquals(new EventData(42), writtenEvents.get(1).data(EventData.class));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    void writesNothingIfTheThreadIsInterrupted() {
+        Thread.currentThread().interrupt();
+        try {
+            assertThrows(CancellationException.class, () -> client.writeEvents(List.of(candidate(23))));
+        } finally {
+            assertTrue(Thread.interrupted());
+        }
+
+        try (var events = client.readEvents("/", new ReadEventsOptions(true))) {
+            assertEquals(0, events.count());
+        }
+    }
+
     @Test
     void writesTheTraceContextOfAnEvent() {
         var traceParent = "00-0af7651916cd43dd8448eb211c80319c-b7ad6b7169203331-01";