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== Hospitality and Obligation ==

Hospitality is a serious matter among the Uragh because the plains can kill the isolated. A traveler may need water, food, warmth, shelter, information, assistance with an animal, or simply the security of sleeping near other people. Welcoming someone beside the fire therefore creates obligations on both sides. A guest is expected to respect the household, its people, animals, possessions, and customs; hosts accept responsibility for those they have welcomed.

The details differ among communities, but the principle is widespread. Someone accepted beneath a family's shelter is not casually harmed, while someone who steals from hosts, threatens children, abuses animals, or deliberately brings danger upon a household may discover that reputation travels efficiently across country with no postal service. Hospitality is generosity made practical, but it is also one of the institutions by which civilization functions where the nearest permanent wall may be days away.

Uragh law operates on similar principles. Kuragh Torr cannot rely upon a courthouse in every district because its people do not remain conveniently in districts. Custom, witnesses, kinship, reputation, negotiation, and remembered agreement therefore carry considerable weight. Disputes over livestock, grazing, water, marriage, injury, theft, debt, insult, or broken agreements may draw in elders, respected leaders, witnesses, relatives, and neutral parties. Settlements matter because today's opponent may be encountered again next season, and a feud that makes a water route unusable harms far more people than those who began it. The absence of a permanent courthouse does not mean the absence of law. Judgment travels because the society itself travels.