Deryn is not worried about her flying skills, because her father taught her them years ago. She and her brother, Jaspert, discuss how she will disguise herself as a boy in order to enter the Air Service as a midshipman. Deryn has fallen asleep studying her aeronautics manual. The story of the other main character, Deryn Sharp, begins in London. Alek is knocked out with a chemical by Volger and hears Volger tell him that his parents have been murdered just before he blacks out. After Klopp and Volger explain that Alek's father has ordered them to take him away from home, Alek shouts that they are lying and tries to pull the Stormwalker's distress whistle cord.
Excited, Alek does not question the unusual timing of the lesson until his tutors' insistance on speed and secrecy becomes too suspicious. He is interrupted by two of his tutors, Count Volger and Otto Klopp, who tell him that it is time for him to practice piloting walkers, namely the Cyklop Stormwalker waiting outside. Fifteen-year-old Alek is in his room late at night, staging a battle with toy soldiers, Clanker Austria-Hungary against Darwinist Britain and France.
The novel begins at Konopiště castle, the home of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his family.
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