"I understand your excitement, General, I do," Hod said. "And I understand your desire to see the victories of these past days turned into something more certain. But I warn you against rushing in too soon. Indeed, General Patrick has done well – but Germanicus still does live. Germanicus is even rawer than the peasants we brought with us. He has no true battlefield experience. Every defeat that he bears and lives through, he grows more dangerous for it. That, and the fact does remain of the scale of their army, and the magnitude of the General in Tavar that heads it."
"You give him respect beyond his station," Blackthorn said. "I will admit, he is a problem. Alone, perhaps I could not overturn him. But he has conceded too much. There will be a price to pay. One can not continue to give and give, and expect to see victory in the end."
"Tavar can," Hod said. "Tavar will see us bitten the moment we overextend."
