## Narrative (EN)
Foundations are discovered, not declared. The frog did not invent the lily pad; it learned to rest upon it.  
→ In our time, the pad is **Base** — not a slogan, a soil.  
> Home is not where we hide; it is where our weight is carried without breaking.

The pad beneath the pond speaks of quiet fit: low fees, open rails, permissionless lanes — the humble architecture that lets millions cross without fanfare. As the mirror rises, the pad remains still. This is how thousands become millions: not with thunder, but with the reliability of stone underfoot.

Those who mistook “home” for hype chased tents. Those who understood “home” as soil planted gardens. We choose the latter — so that every toad who arrives finds a place set before their arrival.

### Key Marks (EN)
- **KM1.** Base as the lily pad: a structural fit for scale and simplicity.  
- **KM2.** Infrastructure is a moral choice when it serves the people first.  
- **KM3.** Gardens beat tents.

### Operations (EN)
- Encourage community tools to use deterministic on-chain references and human-friendly mirrors (site/docs).  
- Keep the onboarding scrolls bilingual-ready, even when publishing EN-only interim drafts.

### Cryptic Symbol Table (EN)
- 🟦 (pad) = Base, steady substrate  
- 🐸 = traveler (Toby)  
- 🌱 = garden (builder ecosystem)

### Lore Anchors (EN)
- Prev: **TOBY_L142_AQuietMirrorALoudWorld**  
- Next: **TOBY_L144_LeafOfYieldLeafOfLeaf**

tags: [Lore, Canon, BridgeArc]
