"Interesting," Oliver said, no longer seeming to shout, but his voice still came loudly enough that it reached all the way towards them, as if it was whispered right into their ear, but a poisonous sort of Command, something that bound the strength of Fitzer's own, and turned it again himself. "I did not think that you would be so quick to forsake your Prince. But I suppose, in blaming your defeat on your General Tussle, cowardice is not something that you are a stranger to."