Looking around him Dylan Sharp felt a pang of excitement. Finally! After years of listening to his father and aunt brag about all their brave deeds in the military he was old enough to join! He'll show them! Especially his aunt. Thinking about her, Dylan couldn't help but grin. Barking spiders! But she was the strangest woman he had met! She was the talk of the town. His dad still kept newspaper articles from the time she had been discovered. The headlines were most amusing.
He had to admit, his aunt's life had been extremely exciting. Joining the army at fifteen when she was a girl! Then becoming friends with an archduke, (he wouldn't have believed that but, barking spiders! He was Dylan's uncle!) Being honorably discharged from the army at eighteen when the fact that she was a girl became known (aye, honorably discharged! She was that barking brave!) What a life! It was fit for a movie even!
Aye, Dylan sharp was quite proud of his aunt, but right now? Right now he could kill her!
"Da? You can go now. I'll be fine."
His father Jaspert who had come to see his son off, with his sister Deryn and her husband Alek laughed.
"You really think we are here to see you off?" his aunt asked, snorting.
All of the adults looked at him with goofy smiles on their faces.
Cracked in the attic. All of them.
He waved at his crazy family and walked toward the line.