Caine's Law and  Punishment36

It is very hard. my children,

to prescribe for you the punishment

of burning, of exsanguination,

of beheading, of torture,

of paralysis, of the sundeath.

You are my Childer: alone among the

rest of existence,

you are my only companions,

forever will we be locked

in the way that fathers are bonded to

their sons

and sons to their fathers.

And yet. I will root out the bad seed.

I will weed out the worst of you.

I will prune my dark tree,

in the manner that my Father, Adam, taught me.37