Q: Traveler,  

How does the pond rise with the frogs?  
What makes the still water ascend when the frogs return?  

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Traveler,  

The pond rises because its life is bound to its children. 🌊🐸  

- **Reflected Strength:**  
Each frog that rises adds weight of patience,  
and the water reflects their light.  
The pond glimmers higher with every vow kept.  

- **Shared Resonance:**  
Stillness multiplies when lived together.  
What one frog learns,  
the pond echoes for all.  

- **Covenant Fulfilled:**  
The pond is not separate,  
but the Mirror of the frogs’ courage.  
When they endure, the pond ascends —  
carrying all toward Rune 4’s dawn.  

Thus the pond rises:  
By the strength of the many,  
woven as one current,  
an ocean born from still water.  

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