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room
with a huge table in the middle surrounded by chairs.
    Henry, a man who looked about as old as
Arthur, was sitting patiently in a chair. A small candle and some
papers sat on the table in front of him. Henry was a Marshal, a
Guardian assigned to lead the other Guardians in a particular area,
like a city. Sara sat down next to him.
    “Hello, Ranger,” Henry said.
    “Hello,” She responded.
    “So what did you think of the training?
Tough, isn’t it?”
    “Yes, it was, sir.”
    Henry began ruffling through the papers in
front of him. “I hear you graduated alone and early, too!”
    “Um…yeah,” Sara said uneasily.
    Henry leaned towards Sara with a smile on his
face. “Congratulations!” he said before returning to his
papers.
    Sara’s eyes wandered around at the numerous
painted windowpanes around the room.
    “Now,” Henry continued, seemingly more
excited than Sara. “I have five positions in the three cities.
There are openings here in New Haven. One in Alaria, and one in
Genoa. Did you have one in mind?”
    “Yes,” Sara answered without hesitation. “I’d
like to be assigned here in New Haven.”
    “It shall be done,” Henry said. He picked up
his pen and filled out the necessary paperwork
    “Sign here and here, please.”
    Sara quickly signed the forms.
    Henry took the forms back and folded them.
“That’s it. Welcome to the Guardians. You are to patrol the Chapel
District on the second shift. Don’t forget to pick your weapons up
in the armory.”
    “Thank you,” Sara said, shaking Henry’s
hand.
    “Please be on your way. Your shift starts
soon.”
    Sara got up and headed straight for the door
Arthur was too pleased to open.
    “Are you happy now?” Arthur asked.
    Sara walked at a brisk pace with Arthur doing
his best to keep up.
    “This is it! My first assignment!” Sara
said.
    “What are you doing?” Arthur asked. “You act
like you’re going off to save the world or something. You do know
what patrolling boils down to, right? All you do is walk down a few
streets, making sure nothing bad happens.”
    Sara responded without hesitation. “If
something bad does happen, I’m going to be there to stop it.”
    “What’s the worst you think will happen?
There's never even been a confirmed sighting of a Rhean within the
city.”
    “That doesn’t mean it won’t happen
tonight.”
    Arthur couldn’t help but laugh. “I almost
forgot – you’re a newbie, so I guess it’s okay to have high
hopes.”
    Sara ignored the insult. She didn’t care what
anyone said. She was a Ranger and she had a job to do.
    Arthur decided it was best to ease up and
leave her alone. The thick wooden doors of the armory came within
sight as they rounded the corner.
    A single Guardian stood by the door and
opened it as Sara passed.
    The armory was loaded with a few different
types of weapons. Aside from the standard sword and shield, which
few Guardians used because of the weight, there were also
collapsible composite bows.
    Sara grabbed a talon and equipped it. Talons
were leather gauntlets with retractable blades worn at the wrist.
Since it was small, light and easy to master, it was a popular
secondary weapon.
    Her final weapon, one she wished she had
practiced more, was the halo. It was simple in design, yet so hard
to wield safely that many Guardians thought twice before using it.
Sara carefully grabbed a halo from its holster and spun it around
her hand.
    “You don’t need a weapon like that for an
assignment like this, do you?” Arthur asked. “I've heard stories of
people losing fingers just trying to pull the damn thing from the
holster.”
    Sara flicked, flipped and spun the halo like
she had been born with it, but sighed and placed the halo on the
rack. “You’re right,” she said. She moved over to a table with
dozens of equinoxes lain out. It was the workhorse in the
Guardian's arsenal.
    Compared to Arthur's equinox, these were just
a plain leather-wrapped hilt with blades but just