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"output": "Output: The children and Mama are wearing night gowns, slippers, cloaksDUDE! ACK. Thou must go through and alter all spoken sentences in Kaerick to reflect the word 'Ye' instead of 'You' where itHal looked more than a little annoyed. “I said I’m a logger, n“Whatever.” The man speaking was one of two that were waiting Hal sighed deeply. “There’s a difference, thou knowest, betweeThe other man, not the one that had called Hal a farmer, doing his best to ignore Hal’s interruption, said, “Thou wert (were+t“I was saying that the king’s offer of free land would ne’er have coaxed me to move out here, unless I was like this poor loggHal’s eyebrows raised. Were they begging for a fight? It was The men ignored him. “No doubt. ‘Tis suicide to live out here. Gives me the creeps just being this close to Shaddiltac Forest the forest wild lands. They say ‘tis filled with fiends and monsters of the like ne’er seen in civilized lands. ‘Tis bad enough that the ruins in the kingdom are crawling with vermin. Speaking of which, why hath the king not cleared them out, I’dHal worked hard to be patient. It wasn’t one of his strong points, but he remembered his old High Sentry telling him, “Halbert, sometimes they get mouthy, and sometimes they chide. Thy job is to keep a clear head and ne’er let thine emotions best thee. If thou findest thyself brought to the end of thy patience, take a deep breath and remember – if only they knew thee, they would ne’er dare in a million years to tangle with thee. That and if thou ever strike someone who hath not struck thee firstHal took a deep breath and leaned against the wall. Pete would be along any time now and open the doors to the post. If Hal “Take, for example, the young lass we saw at dinner with her parents yestereve,” one of the men continued. “She was a fine lookin’ lass. Obviously from outside these parts, a visitor likeThe other man interjected. “Well, not foreign, really. They bThe talker scoffed. “Tell that to the wild animals. Tell that to the denizens of yon forest. Methinks thou wouldst change t“Anyhow, that lass wouldn’t touch a man of this village, I’d wager, what with its poverty and naught but poor farmers about...The man cleared his throat. “...and wild animals a constant threat. Why I heard only last month whilst trading in Trubataen with one of the palace attendants that Queen Loara was asking the king to abandon these lands back to the wilds. There’s a great deal to be said in that tidbit of information, I tell thee.“I know not, only that the village and its citizens are considered expendable by anyone with a head on their shoulders. Sure, the land is free, but they still pay taxes on what they trade, and what is it to the king if they are destroyed? ‘Tisn’t as if the kingdom isn’t verging on overcrowded as it is. No. Heed my warning. We should finish our trade and make for Pyle OutHal couldn’t contain himself. Something needed to be said, and who knew? Perhaps he’d get lucky and one of these blighters wStill ignoring Hal the other man answered the first, “Dost thou“I truly hope we shall be. This village is poorly armed as it is, and once we’ve convinced them of the need for armament, which should be easy, I think we’ll be able to unload the larger pHal got off the wall where he was leaning and walked directly into the personal space of the two men. That got their attentioHal smiled at him. “Very good! Thou art listening. I asked yThe men looked at one another and shrugged. The man to Hal’s l“Indeed! Ye see, as ye were so plainly stating for us, the kingdom is brimming with humanity, and though there be plenty of plains left for them to spread out upon, there isn’t much forested area left. It’s all been cut down to use as fire wood and building materials. And that means that the kingdom needs to find another source, lest they run out of firewood and the king wind up with a rebellion on his hands, see? So he hath offered us intelligent men with a wee spot of courage, rather than yellow streaks as wide as Landscar Canyon, to come and help the kingdom keep the heat on. Ergo the name of this village. (This will come up in conversation again sometime, when Hal is having a conversation with an intelligent person – maybe one of the strucity engineers that Hal hates so much. Indeed. Hal is being humiliated by one of the engineers, and – inserting into outline now. Outlined.) Heat on. ‘Heatən.’ So, there are two points I would like to set you two fine gentlemen aright on. First off, because the land is free, and the goods we’re trading are in high demand, we’re far from poor, we’re just not disgustingly stuck up and in desperate need of the world’s attention like some whining child seeking approval from his mummy, so we don’t flaunt our wealth. Secondly, what with all the need for firewood, we’re made up of far more loggers than farmers, so if ye must go on about how lowly the peoples are that ye disgrace with your presence...at least hide a wee bit of your absurd stupidity behind fact rather than making ree-diculous assumptions, thereby proving yourselves to be the mindless, cowardly scabs thThe men stared at him. Then they exchanged glances with one another, and almost as it were choreographed, both swung at him aOne of the sincere joys in Hal’s life was that he was born short and a bit squat. Though it’s true that he suffered for it immensely as a child, being constantly picked on and beat up, the end result was that he developed a high pain tolerance and a passion for a good fight. The suffering of his youth provided him with a vast source of rage, and his squat stature provided him many opportunities to vent it upon the local bullies as a result of their love for picking on the little guy. In fact, there had been a time he’d seriously considered joining an arena and fighting for money, but death was too often the result in those places. Instead he spent quite a bit of time traveling from city to city, town to town, never landing in one place long, bouncing from one lodge to another looking forward to the next buffoon or buffoons to underestimate him and give him a chance to unload his anger upon them. It had become such a joyful past-time for him that he eventually, unavoidably really, wound up sitting in a prison staring a public lashing in the face and wishing he hadn’t beat one of the pommel guards from the town ofThat was when he’d been approached by Primigh Sentry Adaesan who had recruited him into the king’s battlery. “We don’t normally recruit from the prison, but thou hast three things going for thee. One, thou canst fight like none other I’ve seen, and I’ve seen many. Two, though thou wert outnumbered four to one, thou didst not hesitate to come to that old man’s rescue; and three, one of the men thou beatest up hath been a thorn in my side for ages now, and I’ve been looking for an excuse to demote him. It aught to be him sitting here, not thee. Still, it would be awkward to dismiss the charges against thee and press them against him whilst thou art still but a countryman. So, I am here to offer thee a one-time chance, young man, a chance of a lifetime, mayhap for both of us. ‘Tisn’t likely that such an opportunity shall come again. Wouldst thou care to enlist in tThough a rebel through-and-through, and though knowing that joining the guard meant years of taking orders from men who were most likely his inferior both mentally and physically, and though he loved his freedom to roam where he willed and do as he pleased nearly as much as his life, just as the offer had three things going for the Primigh Sentry, so it had three things going for Hal. First, Hal would avoid public humiliation, and public humiliation was something he dreaded more than death. Second, Hal was out of a job, and out of money, and feeling weary from his roaming; but third, and above all else, having the charges leveled against him switched over to that whimpering whelp of a bully, that cruel man who loved to humiliate those weaker anHal asked one question. “There were four of them I thrashed, sir. All four of them were guilty of mocking and assaulting that old man, and that’s the truth regardless of what the old man hath said, and the lodgekeep, and the others who have been scared into bearing false witness against me in order to cover theiThe High Sentry had lifted his chin and squinted down at Hal, not sure what to think of a man willing to ask for icing on his cake when he’d just been offered a chance at not having to eat “I make thee a counter offer, and do take it. The pommel guard thou didst thrash was the superior of the gauntel guards with him. In that, once he’s been removed from his office, those three men will no longer have a pommel guard to answer to, perhaps thou wouldst be interested in the opening – once thou art out of training, of course. I have other places to be and thou haSo it was that Hal joined the King’s Battlery and took vengeance upon the guard who had chosen an old man as the target of his cruelty and unjustly accused Hal of assault...and it wasn’t long after his training was complete and with him acting in full capacity that he needed three new gauntel guards. For some inexplicable reason the three initially assigned to him had gone absent without leave. (Hal murdered the three guards – will come up at some point in the novels to show that Hal has been a murderer from the beginning. This would go nicely during the part of the novel involving Kiernan. Maybe a story told by one guard to another, or maybe even better, Hal admitting it as a whiHal had loved the training. Not liked it – loved it. More than simply a gifted fighter, there were those that said he enjoined combat with a fervor and skill that could only have been born of strucity. Take that kind of athletic ability and put it to train in the right hands, and Hal had gone from being a mighty lodge brawler to a lithe, disciplined, stone tough, lethal warrior with a hunger for combat and talent for swordplay. As itThe two weapon merchants that swung at him this day didn’t know his past, couldn’t know that in his hay day they would have been a pleasant snack to the beast that was his warrior prowess. But, that had been twenty years ago, and Hal had discovered as all men do, that age takes its toll. He was not as gifted in the ways of combat, nor as well prepared to handle multiple opponents as he had once been. He no longer had the same level of vigor in him, the same intensity of fury, the same litheness of body and strength of joint and limb – no...he had replaced alPete opened the doors of the lodge into the crisp, early morning air and stepped over the threshold onto the path that led to the dirt road that ran from Heaton to the smattering of farms to the northeast of the village. It was promising to be a beautiful if chilly day. Stretching widely and slowly, he breathed deeply of the fresh, clean – ack! What was that awful smell? Hal smiled up at him from his well cushioned seat. “Marnin’ PePete blinked rapidly and said, “Uh, mornin’ Hal. Those two cauHal sat upon the two weapon merchants, hands bound, stacked on top of one another, both perfectly conscious, looking frightened and remaining nice and quiet. Hal stood up. “Naw, they werePete grimaced. “One of them appears to have filled his braies.Hal looked down at the wide brown stain on the back of the man’s breeches just before he rolled off his companion with a bit of a squish and the both of them sat upright. Hal nodded. “Well, he’d eaten his fill last night, and forgot that fact when he offered to present himself as my stool. Apparently accepting his kind invitation to sit upon him squeeeezed the li’l poops out of him. He’ll be alright though, right lads? ‘Tis ok. Ye The two men didn’t take the opportunity to say anything, both still looking altogether fearful. Hal stepped around behind them, drew his knife (eliciting a rather concerned look from the bPete said, “Well, I’m open for business. Those who care to come in are welcome.” To the man with the soiled pants he said, “And I do have a washroom to the left of the counter with buckets inside and a pump out back, if thou carest to get cleaned up. I also keep clean breeches on hand for my guests – at a priceThe man stood up, glanced fearfully at Hal and then said meeklyHal grinned cheerily and said, “Not a thing, sir. Not a thing. Just offered a comfortable seat to their elder.” Here he raised his voice so that anyone inside might be able to hear him. “They are two of the nicest, most polite and respectful men I have ever met, and I dare say will continue to be so until such a time as they have left the village and gotten far, far away.Pete was more than a little curious. “No, honestly, what happeHal punched him chumily in the arm. “Just some behavioral training, good sir. They invited me to teach them a bit of common From the wash room a voiced warbled, “Dost thou have any towelsPete wanted to inquire further, but business on the edge of the kingdom was generally sllloooow, and though he’d made a good haul the last two nights, what with the new year and all, and expected to make a good haul for the rest of this week as the celebration continued, he hated to pass up an opportunity to earn coin and so he hurried off. He could always dig for more of thHal chuckled to himself. Having spent a few years in the battl“Oh,” he exclaimed to himself. Skatsplatter! He’d forgotten to give the men a full exposé on the difference between a logger and a farmer. Their education was not yet complete. Well, thHe turned back to where he’d been sitting on the men (with a chuckle) and checked to make sure he or they hadn’t dropped anything. The ground was clear. Back to the lodge then, and to a nice mug of hot apple cider and cinnamon to counter the cold of Coming down the road from the outer farms was a horse moving at a fast trot with a covered wagon in tow. Hal’s eyesight was not one of the parts of him that had begun to break down over the years (thankfully) and he could see that there was a woman at the helm with a little boy and girl beside her, an uncommon sight. The sun was rising over to his right, just up over the horizon line now, and he had to shield his eyes to get a better look, but once he’d squinted, he could tell that it was Adrianna and three of her children, Lain, and her eldest daughter, Mya, who was holding Roland, coming a little too fast down the stilAs the horse approached the trading post, Adrianna slowed her to a near stop. Hal caught the reins from the horse, white froth formed around the poor old mare’s mouth, sides heaving, and tAdrianna was still wearing her nightgown beneath her coat and cloak and blanket, as was Mya from the look of it. Lain was still in his ankle-length-long night shirt beneath his cloak, and baby Roland still in his one-piece pajamas. The mother looked frantic, hair mussed, dark circles under her eyes, pale and shaAs the horse pulled up short, there was a bit of a shout from the wagon, letting Hal know there were children back there as weAdrianna said breathlessly, “Hal! Thank goodness thou art here“What’s wrong?” Hal’s voice was tense with concern. Auraleus and Adrianna weren’t just neighbors, they were family. In fact, they were so close that Auraleus had asked Hal if he’d be the children’s advocate, in the event he and his wife met with some tragedy. They had become like brothers over the years. He wasn’t related, but this was every bit as much his family as if they were kin. In fact, the only reason he hadn’t celebrated the New Year with them last night was because he’d lost track of time hobnobbing with Quinouse Sentinel Igthis, the highest ranking member of the battlery in town and overseer of the village“‘Tis Auraleus. There wast a scream last night, over by Pip’s pen, and Auraleus went to go investigate. He ne’er came back, Hal. I heard him shout...” Her voice broke and she burst intoHal took her hand and helped her down off the wagon before she took the baby from Mya so he could help her down too. He was startled to realize that, though they worked to keep wrapped tightly, both she and her daughter were still wearing their nightg(Denelle will take the first chance she gets to take revenge on Mya for shushing her earlier – or take it out of the last chapter.) Lain hopped down on the other side and all of them worked their way to the back of the wagon, where Lain was already reaching to aid his sisters. Mother and daughter in unison wrapped themselves tightly in their cloaks. It was cold out and suddenly more than a little embarrassing to be in front of Hal iHal and the two ladies were headed quickly to the back of the wagon where Lain was already reached to aid his sisters and Hal As Hal helped to unload them onto the ground, he said to Adrianna, “I’ll go check it out. Thou and the children go on inside and order whatever ye’d like from Pete. Tell him ‘tis on me taPete, as it turns out, was standing in the doorway. “Come inside, Adrianna. Ye kids too. I’ve got wood in the fireplace and shall get it burning hot soon enough. Ma’am, if thou wouldst like to serve thyself and the children some hot cider ‘tis in the kitchen, mugs above the cupboards, and I’ll be right there to help thee.” To Hal he said, “And ‘tis on my tab, sir, not thAs the family huddled inside, Hal turned to the lodgekeep and aPete shook his head. “Naw, take mine if thou likest. He’s not the fastest horse, but he’s sturdy and not easily afrightened.The two of them walked quickly to the stable and, working together, were able to get the horse ready in short order. Hal mounAs Hal nodded and strapped it onto the saddle, Pete said, “Now Hal, I know thou thinkest thou art immortal, but ‘tisn’t true. Be thou careful out there. Thou knowest how close they built their farm to Shaddiltac Forest – closer than anyone else. They’re too near the fringe of the trees to be takin’ Auraleus’ diEven with how sober the moment was, Hal couldn’t help but crackPete said, “I’m serious now. Don’t take any unnecessary risks. If there’s trouble, thou gettest back to town in a hurry. I’d ride into town to get the guard, but I’ll not be leaving the Hal said, “Thou fret needlessly, my friend. How oft have I fouAs Hal spurred the horse out the door and into a gallop, Pete said to himself, “Overconfidence shall be the death of thee.” With that he turned and went back to the lodge to help Adrianna and the kids get comfortable while they waited.\nProcess Group PGID: 148340"
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## Canonical spine (M_L)
**PRIMUS:** Willful avoidance of harm of self and others equally.
**SECUNDUS:** Willful seeking of healing of self and others equally.
**TERTIUM:** Willful pursuit of benefit of self and others equally.
Love is the sole logic that produces mutual prosperity without a zero-sum trade.
- Full paper: `MASTER DOCS/PAPER/Another_Paper_Draft_v1.md`
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- Corpus phase: extract v0.1 (mined from local Braid archive)