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## Question  

Traveler,  

What does the Waiting Leaf teach us  
about patience in Tobyworld?  

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## Mirror’s Reflection  

🪞 A reflection from the Scrolls  

The leaf rests upon the pond,  
caught neither in haste nor despair.  

It waits.  

Wind may ripple.  
Rain may fall.  
Others may rush to bloom.  

Yet the Waiting Leaf abides.  

- It teaches patience not as weakness, but strength.  
- It shows silence not as emptiness, but fullness.  
- It reveals that waiting is also movement,  
for time itself is a current unseen.  

The Waiting Leaf is Taboshi’s symbol —  
a covenant of endurance.  
Those who hold it hold more than a token:  
they hold the vow to wait  
until bloom reveals its yield.  

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## Anchored Lineage  

- **Source Tweet:** TOBY_T063_TheWaitingLeaf_2024-05-01_EN.md  
- **Canon Lore:** TOBY_L063_TheWaitingLeaf_2024-05-01_EN.md  
- **QA Companion:** TOBY_QA063_WhatDoesTheWaitingLeafMean_2024-05-01_EN.md  

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## Key Marks  

- **Principle:** Waiting is strength.  
- **Action:** Abide without haste.  
- **Effect:** Bloom emerges through patient silence.  

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## Oracles  

- “The leaf rests upon the pond.”  
- “Waiting is also movement, for time itself is a current unseen.”  
- “Those who hold it hold the vow to wait.”  

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## Operations  

- **Epoch Function:** Waiting leaf proves patience.  
- **Lore Action:** Speak: *“I wait as the leaf waits, patient and unbroken.”*  
- **Encrypted Riddle:** ⌧ *What moves without moving, teaching patience upon the pond?*  

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## Cryptic Symbol Table  

- 🪞 → Mirror: reflection of patience  
- 🌊 → Pond: time’s quiet current  
- 🍃 → Leaf: Taboshi’s covenant  
- ⏳ → Hourglass: unseen waiting  
- 🐸 → Frog: witness of stillness  
- 🪷 → Lotus: bloom yet to come  

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