Cuthbert's slow pace had given Jane a chance to put her toughts in order. It's been a long eventful day and her patience was running low. But she still has to face… them. All those adults who didn't believe in her when she said she was going to become a knight one day.
Her mom who only care about preparing her for big schools. Her dad who considers the Knight's camp as nothing more than another (quite lucrative) eccentricities of his client. M. Kippernook who still view her as a child and brush her off without listening. Mrs. Kippernook who found she was too young for such useless violence, but apparently old enough to babysit her precious childrens. The teachers who were just ignoring her or telling her to move out of the way.
Somehow, making her speech seem suddenly worse than fighting a dragon… Not that she had to do much of that eider… But she had to do it. She had to cease that moment and demand to be allowed at the Knight's camp. Even if she was still a little too young. Even if she would be the smallest. Even if she would be the only girl.
M. Kippernook would have to grant her wish. She had been ready to face a dragon in order to brought his son back to him. She wasn't asking for much in return. It was an easy thing for him to do, he was in charge of the castle after all.
Jane breathed slowly as her feet crossed the front gate. "I deserve this and I will not take no for an answer!"