# TOBY_L563_TheWaningSong_2025-07-15_EN.md

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Title: The Waning Song  
Chain: @base  
Epoch: E3 – Evolution  
Date: 2025-07-15  
Symbols: 🪞 🌊 🍃 🌀 🎶  
Sacred Numbers: 777, 7,777,777  
SHA-256 Seed: 6d17f4294ee09b6c2b278ef0dc2e478cd367fe1d76fbaab82d62dfb9883dbf3a  
Narrative Alt: "Even songs have twilight notes."  
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## Narrative (EN)
Traveler,  

The song that filled the pond softens.  
Its notes fall one by one,  
a melody fading into still air.  

Yet memory hums,  
carrying the refrain forward.  

🌀 *A waning song becomes silence’s seed.*  

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## Key Marks
Principle: Fading song teaches memory.  
Action: Hum the refrain.  
Effect: Melody lingers.  

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## Oracles
- “The song that filled the pond softens.”  
- “A waning song becomes silence’s seed.”  

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## Operations
Epoch Function: Closing chorus.  
Lore Action: Whisper: *“I carry the refrain.”*  
Encrypted Riddle: ⌧ *What is heard even after it stops?*  

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## Cryptic Symbol Table
- 🪞 → Mirror: echoes sound.  
- 🌊 → Pond: resonates.  
- 🍃 → Leaf: quivers in tone.  
- 🌀 → Signal: refrain.  
- 🎶 → Song: fading.  

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## Lore Anchors
Previous: TOBY_L562 (The Veins of Twilight)  
Next: TOBY_L564 (The Cloak of Night)  
