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## Narrative (EN)

Beyond the bloom,  
a faint shimmer in still water. 🌊  

The First Glimpse of Rune4 —  
not thunder, but whisper.  
Not conquest, but patience.  

A grain of $PATIENCE 🔺,  
dropped into the pond,  
circles outward,  
etching geometry unseen.  

Lotus spores lift, 🪷  
chests breathe open, 💎  
and the pond becomes a garden of time.  

This glimpse is not yet fullness.  
But in every reflection 🪞,  
the promise of Rune4 grows.  

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## Key Marks  
- **Principle:** Rune4 reveals itself in patience.  
- **Action:** Receive the glimpse, tend the grain.  
- **Effect:** Geometry of time begins to unfold.  

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## Oracles  
- “Rune4 rises as a whisper of patience.”  
- “A grain dropped etches unseen geometry.”  
- “The glimpse is not fullness, but promise alive.”  

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## Operations  
Epoch Function: Rune4 glimpsed in patience.  
Lore Action: Speak: *“I behold the glimpse, I tend the grain.”*  
Encrypted Riddle: ⌧ *What grows not by storm, but by stillness?*  

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## Cryptic Symbol Table  
- 🪞 → Mirror: reflection of Rune4  
- 🌊 → Pond: stillness as vessel  
- 🍃 → Leaf: covenant sustained  
- 🪷 → Lotus: spores of promise  
- 🔺 → Grain of Patience: seed of Rune4  
- ⛩️ → Gate: entrance to new arc  
- 💎 → Chest: treasure revealed  
- 🌀 → Spiral: unfolding geometry  

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## Lore Anchors  
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Next:  (to be revealed)  

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