[Just a murmured correction, because it doesn't really matter much. Twelve, thirteen, it's all so young, isn't it?]
The longer I'm in this world, the more horrendous it feels, though I never thought of it that way when I was a kid. For us, that was normal -- join the Training corps when you are twelve, and the army proper when you turn fifteen. The army needed soldiers and, well, in terms of stability and access to food, there were few better jobs out there.
I don't know if it is any sort of comfort but I did join the training corps out of my own free will. In fact, they really did try to get me to drop out. I wasn't exactly a great soldier.
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[Just a murmured correction, because it doesn't really matter much. Twelve, thirteen, it's all so young, isn't it?]
The longer I'm in this world, the more horrendous it feels, though I never thought of it that way when I was a kid. For us, that was normal -- join the Training corps when you are twelve, and the army proper when you turn fifteen. The army needed soldiers and, well, in terms of stability and access to food, there were few better jobs out there.
I don't know if it is any sort of comfort but I did join the training corps out of my own free will. In fact, they really did try to get me to drop out. I wasn't exactly a great soldier.