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When we return, it's part one of a story from the Black Guard by Justin Reinars.

Now, bolster doors, lock your windows, turn off your lights, and come with me into the weird darkness. Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. And You're going to be. The story I'm about to tell you is rather confidential. Amongst the Meyer we are known as Regiment 9.

Throughout Regiment 9 we're known as the Black Guards, but in the small circle of men and women who actually make up the organization, we call ourselves the exterminators.

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