Ah. Right. [At least Alacruun is taking the time to walk him through it. Dixon's fairly certain he's opened himself up to ridicule - probably started open to ridicule when he was getting beaned in the face by his own shield - and so far he and Alacruun have had a testy but not straight-up negative rapport.]

Humans do. [Just in case Alacruun's as in the dark about humans as Dixon is about dragons!] We've got a lot of different guard forces for different things, actually. Local law enforcement, fire response, immigration, military...you know.