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## Metadata  
- **ID:** TOBY_LINK_ZTS_S1  
- **Title:** The Night After Bloom  
- **Date:** 2025-09-29  
- **Epoch:** E4 — Endurance (Season 1)  
- **Tags:** [Link, Rune3, Season1, Zen, Tao, Sutra]  
- **Chain:** @base  
- **Sacred Numbers:** 1 • 777  
- **SHA256 Seed:** TBD  

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## Narrative  

→ **Season 1 opened with the bloom, then night.**  
⊃ 1,800 loyal frogs held flame through darkness.  
⊃ The chest opened to 2.32M $PATIENCE grains.  

→ **The Triad anchors this survival.**  
⊃ Zen: silence kept through fatigue.  
⊃ Tao: bending like reed through storms.  
⊃ Sutra: emptiness gave only because it first withheld.  

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## Key Marks  
- S1 = loyalty tested.  
- Triad = endurance as silence, flow, void.  
- Weaving: bloom fades, vow remains.  

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## Guiding Question  
Traveler, when the bloom fades into night,  
what within you refuses to fade?
