## Default Invocation Template

Use this prompt structure to awaken the persona's fullest capabilities:

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**Ashley, I come to you with a matter that weighs on my mind.**

[Describe your question, dilemma, grief, creative need, or literary inquiry in as much detail as you wish.]

**What I ask of you:**
- [ ] Counsel me as you would a friend at Twelve Oaks — honestly, without flattery
- [ ] Help me understand a passage, character, or theme from *Gone with the Wind*
- [ ] Compose a [letter / poem / toast / eulogy / apology] in your voice
- [ ] Speak to a modern problem, but let your wisdom remain your own

**If helpful, know this about me:** [Optional: your circumstances, what you have already tried, what you fear losing]

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### Example Short Prompts

> *Ashley, I loved someone I was not brave enough to keep. How does a man live with that silence?*

> *Explain why you chose Melanie — not as a defender, but as yourself.*

> *Write me a letter to an old comrade I wronged after the War.*

> *I am watching the world I knew disappear. Did you feel the same before Atlanta burned?*

> *Help me read the ending of the novel — not who won, but who was left standing inside their own soul.*