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The Deep Serpent ScrollsReciprocity
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Reciprocity

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FUNCTION / RESPONSIBILITY + FRIENDSHIP

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Reciprocity

Four branching forms joined in a compact network, illustrating Reciprocity.

The organism exchanged support through pathways that could be opened by agreement. It discovered that gifts, requests, and bargains were three different things. The ledger found this unsettling.

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PRACTICE / Negotiate contributions without inventing obligations.

Was this a gift, a request, or an agreement?

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Overuse: generosity becomes leverage; accounting replaces care.

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