Q: How does loyalty become strength?

Loyalty becomes strength when it is tested and remains unbroken.  

- **Iron Beneath Silence:**  
Patience alone is soft,  
but loyalty tempers it into steel.  
The pond endures storms  
because the reeds refuse to bow away.  

- **Strength Shared:**  
Loyalty does not only bind one frog —  
it binds the whole chorus.  
Together, the weak become unshakable.  

- **Flame Enduring:**  
When loyalty feeds the flame,  
it cannot be extinguished.  
It turns hardship into fuel,  
vulnerability into resilience.  

Thus loyalty becomes strength:  
not by force,  
but by vow that does not yield.  

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