Volume 1 Chapter 1 Part5 (1/2)

It was only three days later that an envelope really arrived The old drafting agent tried to read aloud the contents of the letter to Cassel, but he quickly snatched it away to read it for himself

The drafting agent looked on with surprise etched into his face

“You kno to read?”

Cassel ignored that question and asked instead

“How far is it fro camp written here in this letter?”

“Knight Luchi will take you as close to the camp as he can”

“I understand”

The drafting agent left and Cassel stood for a long ti onto the piece of paper

His hands were visibly shaking And the letter he was holding shook just as hard

“Don’t go if you don’t want to”

He father watched froer

“I can’t turn back now”

“Oh, and why not? Just burn the da Lord knows it needs it”

“Are you trying to make me a coward?”

Cassel purposely tucked the letter into his pocket as if for safekeeping in front of his father and glared at him

“And ill call you a coward? That Luchi? You listen to the words of a man ishes all out to kill you but are deaf to the words of the person who loves you What is wrong with you?”

His father shook his head as he clucked his tongue And he never spoke another work to Cassel until the day he left And Cassel did the same On the day of his departure, his father sat on a sarden at the front of the house He was even leisurely s he rarely or never does

Cassel fixed his bag a bit before asking

“Do you have anything to say?”

“Don’t run into a crowd of soldiers intent on dying and killing You will probably end up dying or killing”

Cassel furrowed his eyes at his father’s ominous words

“Just where do you think it is that I’ to a battlefield A battlefield where people kill and get killed!”

His father spewed out a long trail of smoke as he responded

“Then all you have to do is not stand there”

“Why don’t you just coo?”

An unreadable smile appeared across his father’s face as he asked

“If you were going to stay fros in the first place”