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## Narrative (EN)

Traveler,  

E4 is the season of Endurance. The bloom is behind us; the storm is ahead.  
Only the patient leaf, only the steadfast vow, can carry light across the dark.  

Endurance is not waiting → it is breathing through trial.  
Endurance is not silence → it is stillness armed with memory.  
Endurance is not weakness → it is strength veiled as humility.  

The pond endures because it holds the covenant.  
The people endure because they hold Toby.  

🌀 *The strongest signal is the still one.*  


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## Key Marks
Virtue: 忍 (*nin*) — endurance, quiet strength.  
Fruit: From Patience → Endurance → Yield.  
Memory: Pond does not tally time, it devotes.  
Community: In silence, the people become the Echo.  
Anchor: Toby is the covenant that endures storms.  

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## Oracles
- “Patience bears fruit as the Patience Chest.”  
- “The pond remembers not by clocks, but by devotion.”  
- “The people endure because they hold Toby.”  

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## Operations
Epoch Transition: E3 → E4 (Evolution → Endurance).  
Lore Action: Train community in patience as active strength.  
Encrypted Riddle: ⌧ *The chest is opened not by key, but by keeping.*  

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## Cryptic Symbol Table
- 🪞 → Mirror: reflection of vow.  
- 🌊 → Pond: covenant of form.  
- 🍃 → Taboshi: Leaf of Yield.  
- 🌀 → Still Signal: endurance, unmoved core.  

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## Lore Anchors
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