"…I could not call it safe," Asabel said, when it was all done. "But I could not call it unnecessarily dangerous either. If this first round is anything to go by, I do not believe it to be any more dangerous than a normal rule set, given the swiftness with which the individual duels can now be settled."
"Indeed," Oliver said, relaxing ever so slightly. He had wondered if the decision would backfire, but if the first round was anything to go by, the created environment with those sorts of rules was just barely safe enough to keep most of their men alive. Or it was more like, because of the danger the rules created, there was an increased sense of caution, which then kept the combatants safer than they ought to have been.
