You might conclude these guards needed closer supervision, but that they had.

Ji has a good line in waves: the guard didn't even need to come over to know what he was asking for.

The guard did not need time to ponder his choices.

Why does she have you working so hard, making weapons that the guards won't need for years?

But the guards, all of the women, they need the weapons.

Surely the guards would have needed clear sightlines throughout the cells.

I realized that my guards, too, might have needed a break from our grim existence.

The door slammed shut, but there was still a torch, since the remaining guard needed light.

The guards need to learn how to avoid instigating conflict.

Even then, he added, guards need special training.