"Because you're not a soldier already? Or because you're on the small side?" Blaze glances down at him as they make their way back out into the sunlight. "Shaxx's philosophy is that you can't know your abilities - or your limits - until you put them to the test. And he's been around since this city was nothing but a cluster of huts and tents. I think he knows you don't turn people away."

She looks around at the civilian technicians passing by, her fellow Guardians young and old exchanging news or striking up a dance party in the middle of the plaza. "Even if it's going to kill us. But it's not about our own survival."