"I was ... I suppose the closest would be a cop? Though here it seems a lot more varied and a lot different. I walked a specific street and listened to complaints twice a week. I was a guard for protests and public meetings in my area. You'd do ropes and set up for parties, and I had three schools I'd check on around lunch time, just to see how the teachers were doing and watch the kids play." Schools were private things, or funded by Moore Imports and Exports. The company didn't want them to be huge, which meant the fees for schools ran higher. You'd get discount tickets from the company store, but - Yvette set up some free schools for people who could not handle that.

Damian half glances over. Easy work, and hard at the same time, but definitely not the same as the grueling work the police here seem to do. "Actual crime mostly would get shifted over to people not from the area. You'd be more of a - witness."

He trails off, splitting one of the puffy pancakes with Feuilly. "And the serious stuff, that didn't go to ExtSec. It'd go to IntSec, who'd be more - uh - the King's men? I don't know what a good term for it would be? A spy?"