Of course they are. The organization loves using people!

Clare looks uncertainly pleased; it makes her seem younger than usual, despite her silver eyes and giant sword.

"You could say I'm just a tool of the organization," she points out, all the same. "Villages pay for me to kill their yoma."

It would trouble her conscience more if she'd had any other options. If her fellow warriors had chosen their fates.

But explaining matters to the town headman is always the part of the job she likes least.