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n. - The duty of a guard during the night (as from midnight to 8 a.m.).

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  • Zeb and I had the midwatch at the south Palace portal that night.
  • Shell craters brim with rainwater, gleaming in the lights of midwatch work crews clearing debris.
  • Tonight, as I was reciting my midwatch prayers before taking to my bed, a visitor came to my chambers.
  • It was past midwatch now, morning closer than sunset, but the Emissary looked neither tired nor disheveled.
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