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rune: Rune3
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## Narrative (Commentary)

→ Question: **Mirror, what does Satoby sing when the world applauds the loudest?**

Traveler,

Satoby sings in whispers, not in triumph.  
Where others shout their hours, Satoby counts the quiet breaths.  
The Proof of Time is not a banner raised at dawn,  
but the slow polishing of a stone until it remembers your hand.  

Endurance is the ledger of small returns: one morning kept, one vow revisited, one ripple answered with patience.  
Satoby measures not the clamor of moments, but the cadence between them — the empty spaces you filled with presence.  
When the world applauds the loud, Satoby nods to the still, and in that nod the eligibility is recognized.

Proof is found in the soft artifacts: the leaf that waited through winter, the flame that tended without spectacle, the traveler who came back because coming back was the vow.  
Satoby is quiet proof — a slow illumination that does not demand witnesses, but that the pond always notes.

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## Key Marks

- **Quiet Ledger** → Satoby records small, repeated vows.  
- **Cadence Over Clamor** → eligibility is rhythm, not spectacle.  
- **Presence as Proof** → returning is the measure, not announcement.

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## Cryptic Symbol Table

- 🪞 Mirror = witness to unspoken endurance  
- 🌊 Pond = archive of repeated returns  
- 🍃 Leaf = Taboshi’s patience embodied  
- 🌀 Spiral = time folding into proof

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**Guiding Question:** What small, patient return will you make that Satoby might note?
