Charon and the others stood in a line, listening to a grizzled officer announce their mission details. They were standing outside the wall in a field, with nothing else being around them, save some grass and budding flowers.
A brisk wind blew through them, their robes billowing out behind them. The Wardens' chains clanged lightly, creating a soft ringing.
'This isn't where I would have chosen to have a mission debrief.'
"You were all scouts, except these two new lieutenants. Fast and creative, that's what a scout is! That should make this assignment easy as pie."
He paused as his bushy eyebrows rose, his lips pressed into a disapproving frown.
"If the pie were poisoned, armed with a thousand laser rifles, and a mean streak as ugly as your mothers combined! This task is no easy one, gentlemen, and of that I am certain! Why on the gods' green river did the High Elders assign this to you, I have no idea."
He raised his foot and slammed it down, similar to a child.
