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    The document describes a wasteland city that was destroyed two years prior by an explosion. The narrator and others have been assigned by the nearby Kingdom of Altar to act as "bridgekeepers," living in the ruins and guarding the only intact bridge to protect the passage and defend against invaders while a new town is rebuilt. The narrator encounters a female bridgekeeper who has lived in the city ruins since before the narrator arrived, and she rebuffs his attempts at conversation, reminding them that their duty is to protect the bridge rather than socialize.

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    The document describes a wasteland city that was destroyed two years prior by an explosion. The narrator and others have been assigned by the nearby Kingdom of Altar to act as "bridgekeepers," living in the ruins and guarding the only intact bridge to protect the passage and defend against invaders while a new town is rebuilt. The narrator encounters a female bridgekeeper who has lived in the city ruins since before the narrator arrived, and she rebuffs his attempts at conversation, reminding them that their duty is to protect the bridge rather than socialize.

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    The document describes a wasteland city that was destroyed two years prior by an explosion. The narrator and others have been assigned by the nearby Kingdom of Altar to act as "bridgekeepers," living in the ruins and guarding the only intact bridge to protect the passage and defend against invaders while a new town is rebuilt. The narrator encounters a female bridgekeeper who has lived in the city ruins since before the narrator arrived, and she rebuffs his attempts at conversation, reminding them that their duty is to protect the bridge rather than socialize.

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    take your shoes off. You're tracking in shit.

    "

    She was in her usual spot, standing guard over the bridge. Today it was my turn to
    guard the other side, where the town hall once stood. The whole of the town was now
    just a wasteland of rubble, the result of a huge explosion two years prior.

    We'd been tasked with watching over the bridge—one of the few structures left intact
    after the blast—and keeping monsters out of the city, while a new town was built from
    scratch. That was the job of the "bridgekeepers," the residents who had been given the
    right to live there. It was a job only available to those who'd survived the calamity, and
    they'd already been living in the city for at least a year before me and the others joined
    them.

    We bridgekeepers had been assigned to this place by the Kingdom of Altar, the nation
    that ruled our region. It was their job to oversee the construction and maintenance of the
    bridge and the city beyond it, which meant they were also the ones who decided who
    was allowed to live there.

    There were many bridgekeepers, but the ones who did most of the work were me and
    the other newcomers.

    I was told that we had to take this duty seriously. This bridge was the only passage
    between the town and the Kingdom, and the first line of defense against any invaders.

    "Hey, man... you're not wearing your armor today," I noted.

    "Huh? Oh, yeah. I'm off-duty today."

    "Off-duty? What are you even doing here, then?"

    "I'm a bridgekeeper. Just like you."

    "Uhh, but I don't remember seeing you in the dormitory. When did you get here?"

    "I live here."

    "...You mean in the ruins?"

    "That's right. Here in the city."

    "Oh. Okay."

    That was the nature of the job. Some people lived here. Others, like me, were from out
    of town. And it seemed she was one of the former.

    "You got something to say?" she asked.

    "Nope. Just trying to figure out how to talk to you."


    "Don't. We're not here to chitchat. Our job is to protect the bridge, not to talk to each
    other."

    "So... you're not from the capital."

    "Didn't I tell you not to talk to me?"

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