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Thorgar gave the clan militia eighty years in the front rank — and the week before his pension paid out, a clerk a third his age reclassified all of it as voluntary. Now he's broke, evicted, and one bad knee away from dying slow in a closet full of rusted armor. Then a leaflet finds him by the alehouse fire: Second career? Proven assets wanted. Stable wages. Debt-financing available. A little asterisk leading to a clause he'll never get to read in time. He knows exactly what kind of door this is. He's going to sign anyway. Voluntary Defensive Auxiliary is a stand-alone prequel to The Delver's Charter — wry, propulsive dungeon fantasy about the people the system already used up, and the stubborn business of deciding where to stand and not moving.