He pointed again at the same terrified soldiers that they had eyed before, and he received the same doubtful looks. "Strange creatures, all of them. All of them so full of danger. It's strange to me that they would ever listen to a word that I said."
"They have come to love you, General," Jorah pointed out. He had come to know the new recruits better than any of the others, given how intimately he had been involved with their training. "It would be stranger to me if they did not listen to your words."
"Ah, yes," Oliver said. "There is that. Even stranger than they are, even more terrifying."