"It is an old man lamenting the fact that I could not take your strategy further," Volguard said, waving Oliver's remark away before Oliver could call it a true compliment. "You have done well, in what little time we've had. I am certainly not ashamed of your abilities as a strategist. You will leave here being one of the best strategists that I have let loose out onto the world – but I dare say that I have failed to tap truly into your potential."
"That does sound suspiciously like a compliment…" Oliver noted.
"To talk rationally about one's own talent without being overcome with positive or negative emotion, that is certainly difficult," Volguard said. "Though I would ask that you humour me. I think you to be mature enough now, that we can speak measuredly about your abilities, and not have you turn into one of many young nobles that are so overly enamoured with themselves that they fail to see their flaws."
