At attention within her chamber, Tania stared at her lean figure in the mirror as she had done many times before. Trying her best not to meet her gaze, she picked off various strains of linen from her uniform as she had done every day. Tania had never been pretty, not like her elder sisters, who were praised for their beauty and talent. Tania's face was narrow to the bone, but her eyes were wide, granting her a most unpleasant nickname.
"You got this!" She said to herself with some spirit. Smiling to herself, she rushed out of her dorm to the Serpents Outreach without delay. Arriving thirty minutes before departure, she frowned at the sight of armed men draped in black, fitted with metal visors and guns.
'The Black Scourge…' she dreadfully thought with a shudder of terror in her step at the sight of Crossed Shape Coffens engraved on their armor.