"Go on then," Oliver said, stiffening, his speech inadvertently reverting back to how he would have spoken to Greeves, as a peasant.
"The stories that spoke of you said Kursak – they were true. The other stories of you slaying Jok, after he received a second blessing from Varsharn – putting him through the Third Boundary – are also true, given how easily you bullied Heathclaw today. And yet… You are still only merely in the Second Boundary yourself. Such things defy convention, does it now?"
"How so?"
"Well, a man in the Third Boundary is meant to be stronger than a man in the Second. That stands to the conventional wisdom upheld by Claudia's Church."
