"...are there more."

"Not that I've heard of, but I imagine she'll be very determined to find some."

"I'd like to hear about it if she succeeds."

"Well, she's never one for keeping quiet any things so I wouldn't be worried."

"What's her name?"

"Lia."

"Pretty."

"She's the city's most accomplished ranger."

"What's a ranger?"

"Someone who does tasks away from the city itself, basically? She'll help guide caravans, deliver messages, rescue people who got lost. That sort of thing." 

"Gotcha. Sucks that that's a... thing, but I'm glad she's good at it."

Nod nod.

"Nothing similar back where you came from?"

"There's... professional security. There's police who try to resolve missing persons cases. Messages are generally not couriered in person."

"Police?"

"Police are people who do the legwork involved in enforcing the law."

"Oh, is that an entire job?" 

"In a real city, yes. On Amenta even a town this size would have a few."

"Huh - what sort of things are common crimes?"

"Theft, fraud, assault?"

"Why don't people ask other people they know to intervene?"

"Sometimes you don't know how to find who did it, sometimes the person who did it is dangerous and you don't want to put your friends in harm's way, also on my planet everyone has castes and that's complicating."

"Castes?"

"There's different hereditary groups with different sorts of jobs we're meant to be specialized for."

"Huh, how many groups?"

"Seven but we're phasing out one, relatively functional countries are letting them self-sort into other castes."