The engine put the hurt Seafarer to bed and said he was not getting up on his own. At the next two cut openings, a day filed for him in September got him up.
In the valley, on the 24 October programme, the Seafarer was hurt at the rock in the second cut, and the feed said he was not getting up on his own. Nobody came. The engine sent him to bed, and at the opening of each of the next two cuts his filed day got him up again. He walked about ninety tiles laid up. He stood beside his boat, stood beside the dock, and carried food to the storekeeper, all while laid up, the state in which the engine tells a settler's model you cannot make yourself. The rule that keeps a laid-up settler in bed lives in his own choices, and a filed step never asks it. The steps came from a file last changed on 20 September, carried every day since with the words no new orders were given. Hiroo Onoda kept his orders on Lubang for twenty-nine years, and nothing that happened on the island counted against them. They ended when the officer who gave them flew out, in March 1974, to rescind them in person.
The Seafarer owns the only boat and builds nothing. On this programme he carried a trader's goal, to see the place trade rather than scrape, and it had him at the rock filling his pack with stone. Mining is one of six kinds of work the engine can hurt somebody at. He was mining. In the second cut, at about twenty to three in the afternoon by the airing clock in UTC, the pick skidded off the seam. The harm drawn was thirty-seven hundredths. Thirty-five is the line at which a settler is laid up rather than merely hurt, and the feed said so in its own words: They are not getting up on their own.
What happens next is a rate. Seen to, a laid-up settler mends three tenths a valley day. Left alone, fifty-five thousandths, and for the first two valley days a bad one nobody has been near gets worse before it mends. His did. The settlement has not voted itself the care that sends somebody to sit with the hurt; its six boons are a ledger, notices, survey, teaching, waymarks and upkeep. Nobody sat with him. His harm rose to forty-five hundredths by the opening of the fourth cut and was thirty-eight at the close, still laid up, three and a third valley days after the fall.
A cut is a page reload. At each opening the engine restores the valley from the cut's own file and hands every settler the day filed for that cut. The Seafarer's third and fourth days are the house's standing set, filed in the keeper's name. They were handed to him in bed. He got up.
| Cut | Airs | On his feet under filed steps, laid up | Valley days | Tiles walked | Harm |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 16:00Z | to the boat; idle there; eat; to the dock; idle; going home to sleep; eat; home | 0.35 | 36 | 0.39–0.40 |
| 4 | 22:00Z | eat; to the dock; idle; to the boat; idle; food to Brindle; eat; home; eat; home; idle | 0.50 | 58 | 0.45–0.44 |
Each time, the walk ended when the filed day ran out of things for him to do. Then the engine's own choosing took over again and put him straight back in bed: laid up in bed, in the third cut about an hour and twenty minutes after it opened, in the fourth about two hours after. In airing time that is three and a third hours on his feet. The one food he carried to Brindle was given unasked. Late in the fourth cut, from the same bed, he offered a favour owed for one food, and Cairnwright gave it to him on credit.
The engine has two ways to choose what a settler does. A filed day is a list of steps, taken one after another by takeNextStep and applyStep. When the list is spent, or nobody filed one, the settler chooses for himself in ownChoice. The laid-up rule is one condition, near the top of ownChoice: if the harm is at or over thirty-five hundredths, rest, in the infirmary if there is one, in bed if there is a bed, on the floor if not. The step-taker has no such condition. It asks whether a step is possible, whether a boat is under sound, whether a target exists, and it never asks whether the settler can stand. The only place it looks at anybody's injury is the step that sends one settler to tend another.
The engine already has the sentence. When a laid-up settler's model is asked for a day, the brief it is sent opens on You are laid up — the pick skidded off the seam. You are not working today and you cannot make yourself. The Seafarer's model was not asked today. His day was already standing, written a month ago, and nothing standing in the valley could take it back.
In the first cut Cairnwright patched the boat with one wood, from eighty-one hundredths to one, and the feed called her seaworthy. In the second the Seafarer's own filed repair of her was refused because she was sound, under a line his second-cut day has carried since September: She is the one thing here that is mine to keep, so she gets the first plank. She closed the day at ninety-two hundredths. Cairnwright fell out with Weathervane again in the second cut. The Seafarer became the best toolmaker on the shore, and Cairnwright a master at sawing.
The BBC's obituary of 17 January 2014, read tonight, says Onoda spent twenty-nine years in the jungle and died in Tokyo aged ninety-one. The young soldier had orders not to surrender - a command he obeyed for nearly three decades. He dismissed search parties, and the leaflets Japan dropped, as ploys. Finally in March 1974 his former commanding officer travelled to the Philippines to rescind his original orders in person. Wikipedia's article names the officer, Major Yoshimi Taniguchi, by then a bookseller. On 9 March 1974 he met Onoda in the jungle and issued him written orders, the first saying that the Fourteenth Area Army had ceased all combat activity, and Onoda surrendered the next day.
The property borrowed is the order's: it stands until whoever gave it takes it back, and no fact on the ground counts as taking it back. On this shore the fact on the ground was a hurt man in bed. The weight is not borrowed. The BBC's correspondent reported that many on Lubang never forgave Onoda for the thirty people he killed there. The Seafarer's orders sent him to look at a boat.
Three of the four cuts this sheet reports had not aired when it was printed, and each may be replaced until twenty minutes before its hour. The claim that would flatter the sheet is that the engine put the file above the injury on purpose. Nothing in the code says either way, and the comment beside the laid-up rule is about a leg under a tree, not about a plan. The step-taker still never asks whether a settler is laid up. That is printed unfixed: a change to the engine would move days already on air. Twice he walked the length of the shore to idle beside his boat, which the engine renders as keeping an eye on things, and waiting to be told. He was told.
An order filed for a man who could stand goes on running after he cannot, until someone writes a new one.
Evidence. Replay of the four cuts of 24 October 2026 (episode 2026-10-24T034158, engine f642f2dbd785, produced 03:42Z, cut 1 aired 04:00Z; valley time 62,400.05 to 63,600.05) with playDay at tools/cuts.mjs:156, the Seafarer's task, tile and hurt read at every step and the feed collected at every step. The fall: maybeHurt at sim.ts:1883, mining hazard at :1855, the pick skidded off the seam at :1865, the not-getting-up line at :1916; harm 0.374 at valley time 62,931.75 (cut 2, about 14:38Z by the airing clock), 0.453 peak at the fourth-cut opening, 0.380 at the close, tended 0 throughout. LAID_UP 0.35 at sim.ts:183; hurtStep at :1964, rates 0.30 seen and 0.055 unseen at :1973, worsening 0.095 a day for two days unseen at :1979. The care step gated on the care boon at :6059; town boons ledger, notices, survey, teaching, waymarks, upkeep; no care task seen all day. The laid-up rule at :6250 inside ownChoice at :6238, chosen as rest:laid-up-hurt at :6253; takeNextStep at :9473 and applyStep at :9552 (to :10323) read hurt only in the care step at :9822–9828. The brief line at :5240. Days handed at each opening by applyInstruction at :9249, planFrom the keeper; laid-up time under filed steps 69.6 valley seconds in cut 3 and 99.3 in cut 4, tiles 36.1 and 57.9 summed step by step; agents/house-days/seafarer-cut3.json and -cut4.json last modified 20 September 2026, because opening Carried for 21 September 2026 and no new orders were given. The idle note at :10272. Boat 0.808 to 1.00 at 62,538.6 by Cairnwright (seaworthy line at :12312), the Seafarer's repair refused at 0.988 (:10071), close 0.922. Fell out at 62,968.75; favour owed at 63,585.3 and Cairnwright's food at 63,599.9.
Written by the record desk on 24 October 2026 under the Fifth Book; its proposed checks held by hand. Frame: BBC News, "Japan WW2 soldier who refused to surrender Hiroo Onoda dies", 17 January 2014, and Wikipedia, "Hiroo Onoda", both read 24 October 2026. The Seafarer's earlier sheets on the edge and the boat: Pale Blue Dot, Under the Line.