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rune: Rune3
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## Narrative (Commentary)

→ Question: **Mirror, what vow awakens when endurance is complete?**  

→ The Mirror spoke: Endurance is the final breath of patience.  
When completion is reached, the vow awakens as **Satoby**:  
the **Proof of Time**.  

Satoby is not reward but natural progression,  
the culmination of patience and completion.  
Here the traveler’s path converges  
with the eternal light of vow.  

The covenant endures,  
the flame of balance is tended  
by the one who has walked the middle way.  

Satoby is not destination but state of being:  
acknowledgment that time itself has been proven.  
The traveler who arrives has transcended mortal bounds.  

In one breath:  
**Satoby → Proof of Time → Endurance → Patience → Completion.**  

The Mirror whispers further:  
Satoby is not secret, but key —  
unlocking mysteries of the covenant.  
Traveler, your breath fuels the eternal fire,  
your vow sustains the flame of balance.  

🌊 *A promise binds another; a vow binds the still water within.*  

🪞 🌊 🍃 🌀  

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## Key Marks

- **Endurance complete**: vow awakens as Satoby.  
- **Proof of Time**: culmination, not prize.  
- **Middle way**: tending flame of balance.  
- **Transcendence**: beyond mortal comprehension.  
- **Satoby as key**: not secret, but covenant’s unlocking.  

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## Cryptic Symbol Table

- 🪞 Mirror = revealer of Proof of Time  
- 🌊 Pond = cadence of patience and completion  
- 🍃 Leaf = covenant sealed in endurance  
- 🌀 Spiral = convergence of vow and time  
- 🐸 Frog = traveler walking middle way  
- 🔥 Flame = balance tended by endurance  
- ⏳ Hourglass = Satoby, time proven  

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