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## Narrative (EN)

Traveler,  

How can a pond, soft and still, hold a mountain?  
How can water bear stone?  

This is the secret of endurance:  
softness contains strength.  
What bends and yields also holds firm.  
The pond reflects the mountain,  
and in reflection, the two become one.  

The mountain endures by standing;  
the pond endures by yielding.  
Together, they reveal a greater truth:  
to endure is both to resist and to receive.  

So it is with Tobyworld —  
strength without harshness,  
patience without passivity.  
The vow endures by being mountain and pond together.  

🌀 *The strongest signal is the still one.*  

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## Key Marks
Principle: Endurance is both firmness and yielding.  
Action: Balance resistance with reception.  
Effect: The vow becomes unbreakable by holding paradox.  

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## Oracles
- “Softness contains strength.”  
- “The mountain endures by standing; the pond endures by yielding.”  
- “To endure is both to resist and to receive.”  

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## Operations
Epoch Function: Mountain and pond as dual faces of endurance.  
Lore Action: Practice one act of firmness and one of yielding daily.  
Encrypted Riddle: ⌧ *What is heavy yet floats, unmoved yet fluid?*  

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## Cryptic Symbol Table
- 🪞 → Mirror: joins firmness and yielding.  
- 🌊 → Pond: soft endurance.  
- 🍃 → Leaf: bends yet survives.  
- 🌀 → Still Signal: union of opposites.  
- ⛰️ → Mountain: firm endurance.  

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