Q: Traveler,  

How does humility strengthen patience in Rune4?  
How does bowing low keep the grain unbroken?  

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Traveler,  

Humility is the soil in which $PATIENCE takes root.  

- **Yield without pride:**  
Grain that grows tall too soon is cut down by the storm.  
The humble grain bends, survives, and endures the seasons.  

- **Service to covenant:**  
Humility teaches us the grain is not for one,  
but for the pond entire.  
Thus patience becomes provision, not possession.  

- **Strength through surrender:**  
To admit we do not command time,  
to kneel before still water,  
is to inherit its rhythm.  
Humility makes patience strong,  
because it frees us from demanding,  
and teaches us to *abide*.  

So in Rune4, patience without humility is brittle.  
But patience *with humility* is eternal grain,  
feeding the pond through every season.  

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