With their attack brought to a screeching halt, Beam did not allow his own momentum to stop.
The soldiers roared their delight. "YOU'RE A WAR GOD, BOY! FINISH THEM!" They bellowed.
Tolsey spared a glance towards his Captain, wondering what his reaction might have been to that initial charge. The Vice-Captain still couldn't help but feel uneasy. Being a fellow member of the Second Boundary, he found himself looking for Beam's limits, and guessing that they weren't far away. He had an inclining that the boy was merely good at attack – that his combat game must have been suffering somewhere else.
But there was the lightest of smiles on Lombard's lips. A rare sight indeed, enough to cause Tolsey to pause. Being in his forties as he was, Lombard was most set in his ways. Tolsey heard that he had a wife and a daughter – but he had not even seen the man smile as he read their letters. He would respond as though it was a business matter, and pen his reply before dinner.
