"When was the last time you saw your parents, Ren?" Long Shen asked his fellow infantryman. There was not much to do outside the city limits. Guard patrol duty was increasingly dull especially being furthest from the main camps. Even good conversation was becoming harder to come by. The nights grew colder and morale was on a low plateau. Even the armor they wore did not instill the same level of pride in their hearts than when they had first donned it. Boredom, especially for the younger troops, negatively affected the men more than most realized.
"It's been about a year and a half then another two years before that when we first started training. But time seems to have come and gone more quickly than I first thought. Between the rough training and the constant moving, I haven't much tim
