the bargain, I was guaranteed security and relative comfort. That was all that mattered to me, then.
When I reached adolescence, I was apprenticed to an officer—Ketros—who taught me everything there was to know about the job I’d been assigned. And I was the best he’d seen in a long while. It didn’t take me long to gain quite a reputation among the Enforcers. I was earmarked for an officer position as soon as I completed my training. The geroi were known to lavish wealth and prestige upon those officers that met with their favor, and even as an apprentice, I had that. There was a bright future awaiting me, and I knew it.
I was nearing the end of my apprenticeship the day that Ketros and I were sent out to that farm in the valley. It was not long after I’d been moved from Valos, the town on the Outside where I’d been raised, to the new city the geroi had built in the blue glass dome. They called it Bright