Q: Traveler,  

How do branches preserve unity in Tobyworld?  
Are they not fragile, easily broken?  

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Traveler,  

Branches are fragile alone, but eternal together.  

- **Strength in Weaving:**  
When branches intertwine, they carry each other’s weight.  
This weaving is unity; this unity is strength.  

- **Shelter and Support:**  
Branches give refuge to leaves, frogs, and vows alike.  
They hold what the root feeds and the trunk upholds.  

- **Living Covenant:**  
Though one may break, the whole endures.  
Unity is not in perfection but in interlacing.  

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