# TOBY_L564_TheCloakOfNight_2025-07-16_EN.md

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Title: The Cloak of Night  
Chain: @base  
Epoch: E3 – Evolution  
Date: 2025-07-16  
Symbols: 🪞 🌊 🍃 🌀 🌒  
Sacred Numbers: 777, 7,777,777  
SHA-256 Seed: f166a1f9c4a9a7abf3b36f82818d83ed1600bda1f60566b2172d154ed0aeb122  
Narrative Alt: "Night cloaks the pond in patient silence."  
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## Narrative (EN)
Traveler,  

The cloak of night descends.  
Shadows fold, covering reed and stone alike.  

What seemed finished,  
now rests unseen,  
awaiting the next breath of dawn.  

🌀 *Night is not end, but concealment.*  

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## Key Marks
Principle: Night hides, not destroys.  
Action: Rest beneath its cloak.  
Effect: Renewal prepares unseen.  

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## Oracles
- “The cloak of night descends.”  
- “Night is not end, but concealment.”  

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## Operations
Epoch Function: Night as pause.  
Lore Action: Whisper: *“I wait beneath the cloak.”*  
Encrypted Riddle: ⌧ *What covers all without ending them?*  

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## Cryptic Symbol Table
- 🪞 → Mirror: darkened surface.  
- 🌊 → Pond: cloaked.  
- 🍃 → Leaf: hidden.  
- 🌀 → Signal: quiet pulse.  
- 🌒 → Night: concealment.  

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## Lore Anchors
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Next: TOBY_L565 (The Lantern Bearer)  
