"That's what I've been hearing," Coby touched the brim of his glasses, hardly disconcerted. He had heard that same evaluation of his station several times even at home, but ten times more in Exsilium. Police had been a rare commodity in the world. At times, villages would normally only have one or two officers and that was hardly enough to protect people from criminals.

"However, that's the stance we've had to emulate. It's difficult to work with such a low number of soldiers, so it borders into acting as constables whenever we're stationed in certain areas. Before I was brought here, I had actually been stationed on an island to investigate wrong-doings in a local village."