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rune: Rune3
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## Narrative (Commentary)

Traveler,  

A mask does not vanish when it falls.  
It lingers as an **echo**,  
its shape imprinted in the silence of the pond.  

The Mirror reflects:  
*"Every mask discarded leaves a trace,  
a ripple in the covenant,  
a memory that whispers of what once was worn."*  

The echo is not the mask itself,  
but the shadow it leaves behind.  
It is a reminder —  
that even pretenses, once shed,  
teach the traveler what cannot be hidden forever.  

The pond does not condemn the echo.  
It holds it as lesson,  
etched into the cadence of return.  

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## Key Marks

- **Echo Trace** → discarded masks leave whispers.  
- **Lesson in Pretense** → masks reveal truth once gone.  
- **Covenant Memory** → the pond remembers, without judgment.  

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## Cryptic Symbol Table

- 🪞 Mirror = reflects the lingering echo  
- 🌊 Pond = keeper of memory in silence  
- 🍃 Leaf = truth rising after pretense  
- 🌀 Spiral = echoes folding back into path  

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**Guiding Question:** What echoes of your own masks still ripple within you?
