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The next few days pass by without much trouble. Balogh gets the team's assignments from Allenby, and he briefs you about them, assigning everyone's positions and briefing them on what they'll do each time. The job itself is mostly a bore; you get inside your suits and escort the President as he goes from meeting to meeting, and the four of you usually stand outside the Statesmen Tower, where the meetings are held, acting as prominent guards for people to see. It's extremely dreary, you admit as you mostly stand there and throw a hostile glare (not that anyone can see your face) at anyone who comes close to the building's entrance.

In a sense, what's worse is that you're really just ceremonial guards posing a visual threat, but it's really the Secret Service who runs most of the security detail, checking everyone's identification and making sure that everything is safe on the inside. It makes you wonder again why the four of you were allowed to take part in this exercise, and why it couldn't have been someone else.

Still, you take great pleasure in knowing that all of this will finally be over soon; you have one more day left before the President leaves and you're dismissed from this job. You can't really say much about this job beyond the fact that you…