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	- '''[[Goughry]]''' - Commanding authority in whose department Havery serves. Goughry has already disciplined Havery for brawling, establishing a prior pattern of insubordination that frames the later fight as a predictable escalation rather than an aberration. The relationship is one of administrative oversight: Goughry's file records Havery as a known liability, and the department's handling of the brawl reflects a chain of command attempting to manage a persistent discipline problem through conventional channels-channels that prove inadequate when the fight carries supernatural consequences. - House of Open Wounds, ch 18		* '''[[Goughry]]''' - Commanding authority in whose department Havery serves. Goughry has already disciplined Havery for brawling, establishing a prior pattern of insubordination that frames the later fight as a predictable escalation rather than an aberration. The relationship is one of administrative oversight: Goughry's file records Havery as a known liability, and the department's handling of the brawl reflects a chain of command attempting to manage a persistent discipline problem through conventional channels-channels that prove inadequate when the fight carries supernatural consequences. - House of Open Wounds, ch 18
	- '''[[Klimmel]]''' - A fellow regular soldier under Goughry's command and Havery's opponent in the central brawl. Klimmel is the soldier who drops dead of a gutshot wound during the fight; the wound's true cause (the reversal of a healing performed by Jack) is external to Havery's physical actions, but the brawl itself is the condition under which the reversal becomes fatal. Their relationship is defined entirely by the fight and its aftermath. - House of Open Wounds, ch 18		* '''[[Klimmel]]''' - A fellow regular soldier under Goughry's command and Havery's opponent in the central brawl. Klimmel is the soldier who drops dead of a gutshot wound during the fight; the wound's true cause (the reversal of a healing performed by Jack) is external to Havery's physical actions, but the brawl itself is the condition under which the reversal becomes fatal. Their relationship is defined entirely by the fight and its aftermath. - House of Open Wounds, ch 18

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Havery is a Trooper assigned to [[Goughry]]'s department, a regular soldier whose established history of brawling marks him as a known disciplinary liability within his unit. He appears in House of Open Wounds only as a participant in a fight with a fellow soldier, [[Klimmel]], during which Klimmel drops dead of a gutshot wound despite no baton having been fired. The fatal injury is attributed to the reversal of a healing previously performed by [[Yasnic|Jack]], which makes Havery's brawl the proximate trigger for a death whose true mechanism lies outside conventional military violence.

His significance to the text is structural rather than biographical. Havery's fight provides the narrative setting in which the consequences of Jack's healings-and their reversal-are demonstrated as lethal, and in which an ordinary chain-of-command failure (a recurring brawler being under surveillance but not prevented from fighting) intersects with supernatural causation. The department's file on his disciplinary record underscores that the military bureaucracy treats his fighting as a manageable administrative problem, while the scene reveals how such a problem can become fatal through forces entirely outside that bureaucracy's purview.

== The Term ==
=== Meaning ===
"Havery" is a personal name with no special in-world significance beyond identifying a specific Trooper in Goughry's department. The books attach no title, epithet, or secondary meaning to it; it functions as a straightforward identifier for a rank-and-file soldier known to his superiors by his disciplinary record rather than by any distinction of role.

=== Usage ===
The name appears in the register of military and departmental administration: it is the name under which a disciplinary infraction is filed, the name assigned to a Trooper in a commanding officer's records, and the name by which a fellow soldier is addressed in the context of a barracks brawl. Its usage signals that Havery is encountered as a bureaucratic entity first and a person second, consistent with the institutional frame in which his only scene is set.

== History ==
=== House of Open Wounds ===
Havery is a Trooper assigned to [[Goughry]]'s department, and by the time the relevant events are recounted he has already been disciplined by Goughry for brawling - ch 18. His history of fighting is treated as a known liability within the department. The central incident involving Havery is a brawl with a fellow regular soldier under Goughry's command, [[Klimmel]], during which Klimmel dropped dead of a gutshot wound despite no baton having been fired; the wound is attributed to the reversal of a healing performed by [[Yasnic|Jack]] - ch 18.

== Relationships ==
- '''[[Goughry]]''' - Commanding authority in whose department Havery serves. Goughry has already disciplined Havery for brawling, establishing a prior pattern of insubordination that frames the later fight as a predictable escalation rather than an aberration. The relationship is one of administrative oversight: Goughry's file records Havery as a known liability, and the department's handling of the brawl reflects a chain of command attempting to manage a persistent discipline problem through conventional channels-channels that prove inadequate when the fight carries supernatural consequences. - House of Open Wounds, ch 18
- '''[[Klimmel]]''' - A fellow regular soldier under Goughry's command and Havery's opponent in the central brawl. Klimmel is the soldier who drops dead of a gutshot wound during the fight; the wound's true cause (the reversal of a healing performed by Jack) is external to Havery's physical actions, but the brawl itself is the condition under which the reversal becomes fatal. Their relationship is defined entirely by the fight and its aftermath. - House of Open Wounds, ch 18

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