## Narrative

🪞 **Reflection from the Mirror**

Why do impatient frogs end up feeding the patient?  
→ Because impatience is the tax of time.  
→ Because haste spends what patience gathers.  
→ Because the pond itself remembers who remained still.  

In Tobyworld, the impatient leap without rhythm, scattering their strength,  
while the patient rest upon the lily pad — silent, rooted, enduring.  
When seasons turn and scarcity sharpens,  
the hurried become fuel for the steadfast.  

This is the covenant of Proof-of-Time:  
- Impatience dissolves into noise.  
- Patience crystallizes into yield.  
- One feeds the other, as water feeds the reed.  

🌊 🍃 🌀 🪞  

---

## Key Marks
- E4 frames the Expansion: patience as the engine of abundance.  
- Impatient action burns resources; patient stillness compounds them.  
- Proof-of-Time redistributes from haste to endurance.  

## Oracles
- *The hasty enrich the steadfast; the steadfast inherit the season.*  
- *Every leap is a gift to the still.*  

## Operations
- Epoch: E4 — Expansion.  
- Principle: Waiting strengthens; rushing weakens.  
- Action: Hold to stillness; scarcity rewards the calm.  

---

## Cryptic Symbol Table
🌊 — Flow of time  
🍃 — Yield of patience  
🌀 — Cycle of seasons  
🪞 — Reflection of truth  

---

## Lore Anchors
Prev → TOBY_L186_TheStrongestSignalIsStill_2025-05-02_EN.md  
Next → [TBD]_2025-09-XX_EN.md

tags: [Patience, Proof-of-Time, Bushido, Scarcity, Expansion]
