Hmmmm, Counting the names in bold, I get five.These four were what one might consider his standard retinue of guards. Aya, the Captain of the Guard, who commanded the Dukal Guard, and her three best. Lovely Suri, with her gold hair and her violet eyes, who was the deadliest marksman he had ever seen. He had never seen her miss, with any weapon, at any range. Ever. Willowy Dera, the youngest of the Imperial Guard stationed with him, who could hear private sendings just like Symone. Tall, tall Shen, who was strong as an ox because she was born and raised on a heavy gravity planet, and crafty Ryn, who was the Guard’s resident mechanic, technician, and general dabbler in all things mechanical.
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This is the kind of thing that happens when you get bored.
