One
The Guardian’s Keep
When Zehra entered her first year of the Guardian’s Keep training, she had already endured the worst of her kind’s criticisms and torments. From primary education to now, she’d been teased, tricked, and underestimated by everyone around her. It taught her a valuable lesson early on: trust no one outside the family and work twice as hard for every achievement.
The training school for the Royal Imperial Guard only accepted the best because only the best would graduate and complete the final test. In the years after the Unification, the Empire chose only the best graduates for the job. They were the only ones trusted enough to care for the royal family. Anyone else with an inclination for being a guardian who failed the final exams were assigned to other security jo
