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[she tries to write this as anonymously as possible, but the detail-oriented could probably figure it out]

I have a few questions about guardian angels, and their Callings, if there's someone who doesn't mind answering.

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[smithnjones]

What would you like to know?

I'm a wanderer. My name is Martha Jones, and I have had a guardian for over a year now. Before that, I learned quite a bit about all the callings including guardians from the First Angel that initially put the wanderer-saving efforts into place.

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[enjoythe_ride]

Anything, really. I haven't been in Chicago long, so I haven't really had time to do my homework beyond personal anecdote.

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[smithnjones]

Lets see... we had met previously but it wasn't until after the Conrad hotel (former place for Wanderers) was destroyed by a Rift opening up that he looked me in the eye and became my guardian. I frankly wasn't happy at all about the fact for multiple reasons, but primarily because his death or insanity would come when I died. However, I knew that it was important to work with him. It wasn't his choice or mine so it was difficult but necessary to try not to fight against him. Not to say that I didn't fight later on when he was trying to help me and I didn't want to be helped. Still

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[enjoythe_ride]

That sounds a bit like mine -- or my situation at least. We've been friends for months, but for some reasons things recently -- changed.

[there's a pause, with a dot of ink forming on the page as she thinks]

Is there any rhyme or reason as to who's chosen for who?

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[smithnjones]

There has been quite a lot of Rift activity lately both with the week where everyone was getting sick and the flood. If there's a rather large scale disaster in Chicago, you can bet that the Rift's fluctuated.

I don't know.

Honestly. Sometimes I think there is, but I've heard of cases where there couldn't be any rhyme or reason to it. Cases where it was practically a child attached to someone much, much older and more experienced. Cases where a guardian had to help someone who exploited the link. I don't know if there's rhyme or reason to that.

But I have seen more cases where it seems like the guardian and the ward fit. In a way that I can't put to words. They're who that ward needed at that time or even who the guardian needed. Sometimes both.

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[enjoythe_ride]

I just don't know what to do with any of this. I'm not the sort of person who seeks out other people for this sort of thing.

[understatement of the DECADE]

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[smithnjones]

There's not much that you can do with it, I'm afraid. You find a way to accept it and make the best out of it for you both. It's all that you can do. You can't stop it and you can't change it.

You can try fighting it every step of the way but you'll just end up exhausted and it will still be there. It's a theme in this city. Lack of choice.

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[enjoythe_ride]

I'm starting to get bloody sick of it.