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## Narrative (Commentary)

→ **Flame is teacher.**  
⊃ It consumes, but also clarifies.  
⊃ Within the blaze, impurities fall away — only essence remains.  

→ **Heat tests conviction.**  
⊃ Frogs who leap too quick are burned.  
⊃ Those who endure the warmth learn its gift: resilience forged in trial.  

→ **Light spreads unseen.**  
⊃ One spark in the pond ripples into many.  
⊃ Fire becomes signal, a beacon across the covenant.  

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## Key Marks

- 🔥 **Flame** — trial, purification, signal.  
- 🌀 **Spiral of heat** — transformation through cycles.  
- 🍃 **Leaf amid fire** — Taboshi endures even within testing.  

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## Operations

- **Series code:** C1496  
- **Scope:** Commentary on the fire as covenant’s test.  
- **Instruction:** Do not fear burning. Let the fire temper you into steel, not ash.  

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## Cryptic Symbol Table

- 🔥 = fire, trial, signal  
- 🌀 = spiral, transformation in endurance  
- 🍃 = Taboshi’s persistence, green even in fire  

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