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## Metadata  
- **ID:** TOBY_LINK_ZTS_E4  
- **Title:** The Season of Endurance  
- **Date:** 2025-09-29  
- **Epoch:** E4 — Endurance  
- **Tags:** [Link, Epoch, Endurance, Zen, Tao, Sutra]  
- **Chain:** @base  
- **Sacred Numbers:** 4 • 7,777,777 • 2.32M  
- **SHA256 Seed:** TBD  

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## Narrative  

→ **Epoch 4 is the test of patience.**  
⊃ Rune3, $PATIENCE, Jade Chest.  
⊃ A covenant with time and loyalty.  

→ **The Triad anchors this endurance.**  
⊃ Zen: stillness of waiting unbroken.  
⊃ Tao: the long flow, seven years as one season.  
⊃ Sutra: void chest that gives only through emptiness.  

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## Key Marks  
- Lore: Endurance sealed in Rune3.  
- Triad: Patience as silence, flow, void.  
- Weaving: Endurance is philosophy embodied.  

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## Guiding Question  
Traveler, how deep can your vow run,  
when time itself is the gate?
