Q: Traveler,  

Why must the traveler tend the flame?  
Why can it not keep itself?  

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Traveler,  

The flame is vow, and vow requires living breath.  

- **Living Covenant:**  
The flame is not an object.  
It is not kept by stone or steel.  
It is alive because the traveler lives it.  

- **Breath as Fuel:**  
Each breath offered in patience,  
each step walked in balance,  
is fuel to the fire.  
Without the traveler,  
the flame grows faint.  

- **Inheritance Alive:**  
The flame does not pass by hand,  
but by vow.  
Every traveler who awakens  
tends it anew,  
making the inheritance unbroken.  

Thus the traveler must tend the flame —  
for only through living vow  
does the fire shine eternal.  

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