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[captain_by_the_book]

Please help me understand this.

Is it actually legally forbidden for humans to enter Everglade, or is it just likely to get them killed?

I would hate to be disrespectful. [ But nobody has tried to kill him in weeks and it's getting weird. ]

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[truesmiles]

It's not that. It's more I have another job in Genessia. In Everglade the most I do is sort out the Everglade Rangers, but nothing more than I use to while in Everglade.

[captain_by_the_book]

I didn't realize you're associated with the Rangers. I came across a few sparse mentions of them. Are they some kind of militia?

[truesmiles]

I'm the founder of them and they were created so that natives could help their city should they want to. It also meant extra help for me since I had so many cases to deal with during my time as City Guardian.

The people who are part of it are people who really care for their city.

[captain_by_the_book]

I didn't realize you were once a City Guardian. When was your term?

[ And which of the terrible decisions he's heard about were yours? As he's been told the tale, every Guardian only made things worse. ]

It's good of citizens to take responsibility for their own safety. Although it strikes me as difficult in a place like Everglade, where what is right and wrong changes so often.

[truesmiles]

From January last year until end of December. I just hope things go well now I am not there to try and build the trust between the Guardian and the natives.

Another reason why I formed the Rangers. Trying to build trust after the whole necromancy debacle.

[captain_by_the_book]

From what I understand, people keep being murdered and a sizable number of these murders are legal.

I'm not sure if I would necessarily call that a trust-building measure.

[truesmiles]

I didn't know about some of them still being legal. I mean I always found ways around the rule before it was gone, so really it shouldn't be.

Before though the only police force type thing was well... the guardian and his deputies whom were never native and the reason the trust wasn't there was because of the guy before me wanting to enforce what he thought was right, which legally speaking it wasn't in his job description to do... So you can understand why I did what I did.

[captain_by_the_book]

That's what I'm trying to understand. The newspapers speak of murders which are called murders, and yet some of the people I spoke to tell me it's a lawless place where humans are prey. Others, meanwhile, feel perfectly safe and at home. It's fascinating how perceptions differ.

And I do mean that. It's fascinating. It's the closest to home I have found here, if you would believe that.

I take it you're speaking of the necromancy debacle. One person, interestingly, told me that the humans are just getting what they had coming. A human, mind you.

[truesmiles]

I believe the rule is gone. I cannot remember the whole circumstance of it going, but I do recall it going.

It could also be old age hitting me.

Interesting and I'm sure there are others who think that, but I'm more on the lines of everyone being equal, no one person should be treated any differently good or bad.

[captain_by_the_book]

I agree. Everyone should be treated equally, and all should be free to live their lives without fear of death or harm. That's what I have been fighting for, back home.

But I've come to understand that hurts heal slowly. I hope your town can heal.

[truesmiles]

Yeah with something like the big hit to that city it's taken all this time to even start rebuilding such a thing.

If it takes another betrayal or something like the banning of necromancy or that rule again, I honestly would not know what might happen.

[captain_by_the_book]

Banning a certain way of life can never bring peace, and neither can more betrayal.

I'm not going to say I know a lot about bringing peace, I'm a soldier, not a politician. But I know that trust is hard to gain, and easily lost. Even more so between different factions and species. Back home, the Empire I oppose believes that non-human lives have no value. I'm human, and so are many who fight it. But we have to understand that some of our allies will only see our species, and distrust us for it.

Sometimes it just takes time.

[truesmiles]

It's sad hoe true that will be. No world will ever be perfect or ever really bring perfect peace, but so long as people still try then it's okay.