Day 10 · the man's side
The Law of the Path — the Road Cut Through
His weapon
The axe and the road
His post
Ahead of the column, cutting
The charge
A lord's job is to make the way walkable for the ones behind him — sons, apprentices, brothers in the guild. He cuts the road once so they do not each hack through the same thicket.
That is inheritance in practice: not money handed down, but a road already cut.
The watch — what it looks like when he skips this day
Arriving alone and calling it leadership.
His oath
“I cut the road so my sons walk it.”
The other side of the mirror
On the women's side this same day is The Law of Path, and its stone is Chrysoprase. Same law, same order — she strings it, he sets it in stone.