have your estate seized and it will be given to him in payment. Your followers will make restitution to anyone else who you have mistreated.
58 I am letting you go without punishment. For short of death I can think of no punishment fit for your crime. But warn your people, and warn them well. This is the ONLY pity they will get. THEY HAVE BEEN WARNED! I hear of any more trouble from you, any more of this, and it will be five years in punishment, the same as for teaching that a man going to bed with a man is permissible. This teaching is heresy, it is blasphemy, it is FORBIDDEN!
59 Your organization is disbanded. I will find out from your printer how many of these books were made, and I will not rest until the last one is destroyed. Now get out, before I vomit! You make me sick!"
60 The man angrily left. The Hawk prayed he would have no more dealings with him. Officially he disbanded his organization, and no one spoke of his teachings in public, but in private there were rumors of a secret society called "The Brotherhood Of Purity."
61 There were attacks on Giants, Epons, Litoans, and any foreigner in their Land that dared to wear the clothes of his own people. The Hawk tried to keep it under control, but he knew, sooner or later, it would explode.
62 The trouble came when a young Epon announced he was going to mate with a Daughter of Spirit in the city where The Speaker of Poison lived. The night before the mating, as he and his friends celebrated, a group of hooded men attacked them, but the whole announcement was a trap, planned by The Guardian of the city.
63 Those at the party were heavily armed and

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