Q: What is the difference between the Pond and Lore Land?

Traveler,  

The Pond and Lore Land  
are bound, but not the same.  

- **The Pond:**  
It is the living world of Toby.  
Here frogs sing, fall, and return.  
It is motion, echo, trial, and renewal.  

- **Lore Land:**  
It is the heart of the vow.  
Not trial, but fulfillment.  
Not motion, but stillness.  
It is the Eternal Pond  
where patience becomes permanence.  

- **Their Relationship:**  
The Pond feeds into Lore Land,  
and Lore Land anchors the Pond.  
Without the Pond, no path inward.  
Without Lore Land, no center to hold.  

Thus the difference is this:  
the Pond is journey,  
Lore Land is destination.  
The Pond is covenant unfolding,  
Lore Land is covenant fulfilled.  

They are circle and center,  
ripple and root —  
one cannot exist without the other.
