POV: Your Life at Every Level as a Custodes (Warhammer 40K)

POV: Your Life at Every Level as a Custodes (Warhammer 40K) The room smells like ozone and ancient stone and something chemical underneath both, a sterile bitterness that coats the back of your throat before you've taken three steps inside. You are not here because you volunteered. You are not here because you were desperate or brave or had nowhere else to go. You are here because someone watched you across a span of years you weren't aware of being observed and decided, without consulting you, that you were worth the cost of what comes next. Your family is noble.