Oliver froze in place. "…Damn it," he cursed.
"I didn't mean to suggest that it was a bad thing."
"No," Oliver said. "You are right. I overlooked the obvious. No wonder it felt like such a natural course of action. Damn it all. How am I meant to defeat my old ideas if I only continue to do what is natural?"
"But is this not how you have acted in the past, on your intuition? Is it not your intuition that serves you best? You seem to feel that this is a step in the right direction, before I was foolish enough to point it out. And yet, by the same token, you feel as if the ordinary battlefield is not. Perhaps this is merely that beginning of distance? It might be similar, but there will be differences. Maybe those differences will be enough to start to see a change," Verdant said.
"…Wisely spoken," Oliver said.
