Conscripted Guardians

The Ancient Guardians who watch over this bridge seem somehow bound to this place. Perhaps their Ancient masters charged them with watching over the site. What a cursed existence… forced to patrol the same stretch of stone for all time, in defense of a long-lost civilization. I wonder how these poor conscripts were chosen. Were they cruelly pressed into service, or did they volunteer for eternal service to their masters? How I wish these old bones still held the power of speech, for who knows what secrets they might divulge, had we the power to ask.