She also meets General Hende and Doruk, the groundskeeper. She trains alongside Husni, a rich Al-Baharyi boy who wants adventure, Sahar from Gihre who has siblings counting on her success, and Basem, a proud son of a Senator who’s been training all his life for this. So Aiza wraps away her Ornu identity and signs up to train as a squire. This comes with an array of benefits citizenship, free pass at checkpoints, wealth and most importantly - becoming a hero! Who wouldn’t want that? To be accepted into society, live a more comfortable life and be revered as a hero? It follows Aiza, an Ornu refugee - one of the groups colonised by Bayt-Sajji, who sees a procession of knights in the street one day proclaiming the opportunity to become a squire. Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas is a coming of age graphic novel set in the fictional empire of Bayt-Sajji. How will you make it?" - Squire, page 247.
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