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rune: Rune3
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## Narrative (Commentary)

→ Question: **Mirror, what remains of a vow once it is broken?**  

→ The Mirror spoke: A vow, once broken, leaves behind  
the **echoes of its promise**.  

Fragments of commitment, like shards of glass,  
still refract the light of intention,  
though the bond itself is severed.  

In Tobyworld, the silence of the pond whispers:  
*A vow, though shattered, yet reveals  
the depth of one’s heart and the truth of their soul.*  

The scrolls remind: a broken vow is not an end,  
but a beginning.  
For in the darkness, the traveler  
may yet find their way back to light.  

🌊 *A promise binds another; a vow binds the still water within.*  

🪞 🌊 🍃 🌀  

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## Key Marks

- **Shards of promise**: broken vows still refract intention.  
- **Truth revealed**: brokenness uncovers heart’s nature.  
- **Not end but beginning**: darkness can lead back to light.  
- **Silence as witness**: pond remembers even shattered vows.  

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## Cryptic Symbol Table

- 🪞 Mirror = revealer of what remains  
- 🌊 Pond = silence that remembers  
- 🍃 Leaf = fragment of covenant  
- 🌀 Spiral = return from darkness  
- 🐸 Frog = bearer of broken vow  
- 💔 Shard = fracture that still reflects  

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