Solidness of Purpose

"State your business."

"I am the Maitre'd, I have come to inspect."

"One moment." She left her second-in-command with the visitor as she went to the order book, and checked the passphrase against the list of authorized persons and their passphrase found there, magically changing as passphrases were added or substracted. It was there, in starmetal-colored letters, sure sign of a Sidereal principal, or someone of their hierarchy.

"Present for inspection, fang!" She smartly came to, keenly aware of the privilege she had in leading the whole unit of Heaven's Dragons's guards, the only dragonblooded exalts truly part of heaven's armed forces, and possibly the largest concentration of artifact Gunzosha armour anywhere, for indeed, the entire scale, five troopers to a fang, five fangs to a scale, plus officers, was equipped with armor of the Engraved-Mien of Pasiap's Displeasure, she herself wore Pasiap's Most Ardent Displeasure, whose black jade gauntlet and white jade gauntlet was as much as sign of authority as her marks of rank.