My daughter is the same way. She was ready to serve as soon as she could hold a gun. But you seem a little young to have been enlisted for so long. Special circumstances? [ She's careful to keep her tone neutral, curious. She's known children who were younger when they squared off against death, and it taught her a few things about how not to deal with them.

She wouldn't have thought the US military allowed this sort of thing either, but considering what Blackwatch had done for years, with UN approval, it's not exactly hard to believe. ]