Originally Posted by
PotatoGolem
Macharius chuckles. Now, now, Hannabel. I appreciate your zeal, but that's not called for. Normally, only two of the Praetorians are on duty at any given time. If I want them guarding me round-the-clock, I need to give them some time to rest, don't I? The men aren't machines. Flannery and Almagor just finished a twelve-hour guard shift. If I'm going to do some other act of daring heroism that requires the whole squad I can rouse them, but only a foolish commander would march his elite guard to exhaustion doing routine search patrols.
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I know you're angry at the attack, Mistress Shanx, and your devotion to the ship is one of the reasons I value you so highly, but I have to take the longer and broader view on this one.