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The afternoon sun shone through the workshop door Bryn looked up fro a lot of noise It was early for theo into the sanctuary pool Most fishing villages had thes that protected theht rats and ers with fishing and the sanctuary pool protected theht there Orcas patrolled the sea lanes after dark and it wasn't safe when they were about

It hadn't always been like that People spoke of a tiuardians That was before The Fall In those far-off days, people could roao anywhere they wanted Now, you had to get pernated area

Stretches of forbidden territory separated the settled areas The trolls patrolled them on land and the orcas at sea The orcas were a sort of sea troll and just as terrifying as the land variety

Like everything connected with the guardians, the orcas had a blue tinge You didn't see it at first because it only affected the black parts of their bodies But, when the light was right, like when you shone a flashlight on them, the blue was obvious If you were at sea and ca then you kneas a wild orca that had not yet been captured by the guardians and doctored by theles and reached for a e He needed to check the valve he was ine built to ancient specifications It was rough, tough and powered by old-fashioned liquid hydrocarbons like his ancestors used hundreds of years ago It worked by taking in water at one end and hurling it out at the other

The guardians allowed the of superiority when they toured the villages on sight-seeing trips They would stare down fro re how lucky the common people were to live under their protection

They were anything but lucky The guardians treated the ordinary people as slaves and even hunted them for sport At least, that is what soain Others returned with strange tales about being kidnapped and taken away in spaceships for wild parties on other planets They were so mixed up and crazy that you never knehat to believe