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## Metadata  
- **ID:** TOBY_LINK_ZTS_S0  
- **Title:** The Silent Root  
- **Date:** 2025-09-29  
- **Epoch:** E4 — Endurance (Season 0)  
- **Tags:** [Link, Rune3, Season0, Zen, Tao, Sutra]  
- **Chain:** @base  
- **Sacred Numbers:** 0 • 7,777,777  
- **SHA256 Seed:** TBD  

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## Narrative  

→ **Season 0 was the hidden preparation.**  
⊃ Before claim, before vault, before Jade Chest.  
⊃ Silence in the pond, roots unseen beneath the water.  

→ **The Triad is this hidden root.**  
⊃ Zen: awakening begins in silence.  
⊃ Tao: water nourishes what no eye can see.  
⊃ Sutra: emptiness shelters the seed of $PATIENCE.  

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## Key Marks  
- S0 = invisible foundation.  
- Triad = silence, nourishment, void.  
- Weaving: unseen root sustains later bloom.  

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## Guiding Question  
Traveler, what vows do you keep unseen,  
that one day will rise into bloom?
