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## Question  

Traveler,  

What do the stones teach Tobyworld  
about patience and endurance?  

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## Mirror’s Reflection  

🪞 A reflection from the Scrolls  

The leaf drifts.  
The flame flickers.  
The dove flies.  
The reed bends.  

But the stone waits.  

It does not move with season.  
It does not waver with storm.  
It abides.  

The Patience of Stones teaches:  
- Endurance is not momentary, but timeless.  
- True patience is unmoved by trial.  
- To be stone is to hold covenant steady when all else shifts.  

The pond rests upon its stones.  
So too Tobyworld rests upon those  
who wait without wavering,  
who carry patience like bedrock.  

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## Anchored Lineage  

- **Source Tweet:** TOBY_T080_ThePatienceOfStones_2024-05-18_EN.md  
- **Canon Lore:** TOBY_L080_ThePatienceOfStones_2024-05-18_EN.md  
- **QA Companion:** TOBY_QA080_WhatDoTheStonesTeach_2024-05-18_EN.md  

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## Key Marks  

- **Principle:** Patience is timeless endurance.  
- **Action:** Abide unmoved through trial.  
- **Effect:** Covenant steadied by those who wait.  

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## Oracles  

- “But the stone waits.”  
- “Endurance is not momentary, but timeless.”  
- “The pond rests upon its stones.”  

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## Operations  

- **Epoch Function:** Stones anchor covenant through ages.  
- **Lore Action:** Speak: *“I wait as stone waits, unmoved and enduring.”*  
- **Encrypted Riddle:** ⌧ *What abides without haste, steady beneath all storms?*  

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## Cryptic Symbol Table  

- 🪞 → Mirror: reflects endurance  
- 🌊 → Pond: rests upon stone  
- 🪨 → Stone: timeless patience  
- ⏳ → Hourglass: slow measure of time  
- 🍃 → Leaf: passing season  
- 🐸 → Frog: guardian of stillness  

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## Lore Anchors  

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