Brilliance - Part 11

"Being terrified of something and still doing it every day is pretty impressive," Nila agreed. "And I mean, there must have been something more to him, if you were his son, after all. What would he say, if he'd seen all that you'd done?"

"I imagine he'd be more than a little shocked…" Oliver said. "When I used to tell my father and mother that I wanted to be a knight, they'd both gently try and explain to me that only the nobility had a chance at knighthood. My mother kept up with those explanations, but after a while, my father realized that he couldn't change my mind, and he started to act like it was the most natural thing in the world for me to become a knight. He would nod his head whenever I would talk about it, even though we both knew it was impossible… And yet here we are, in the belly of impossibility."

"You have gone much further than you knew to as a child," Nila said. "And you'll go a lot further still."