When Arjun Thapa first wore the badge, he thought it would be light—a symbol of pride and honor. But weeks into his duty, he discovered the badge weighed heavier than any stone he had ever carried as a laborer. With the authority to arrest came the responsibility to decide whose freedom to restrict, whose cry for help to answer first, whose anger to calm with firmness. He was no longer only a dreamer from Bhaktapur; he was a man whose decisions touched lives.