Emergency Call up

"Hey, Aurel," Jason called, finding a familiar figure among the crowd.

Her expression froze for a moment, but she pushed that aside and pursued a normal, flat expression. She made no impression that she wanted to mingle with him. Giving him a nod, she stood in her place silently. Jason smiled and crept to stand next to her.

"So, you have been called up as well, ha?" he said.

"Everyone whose supplementary duty on the front lines is due has been called up, of course, I have to turn up," she said nonchalantly, waiting for the people in the camp to arrive and announce the reason for the sudden call-up. "Not everyone has a father like yours."

Jason sighed at her biting words, but that was just Aurel being Aurel.

"You thought I was going to ignore the call," Jason said, "and use my background to get away with it."

She nodded. "It's not like your first time doing something like that."