Readying for Battle - Part 5

That seemed to be the key. To make use of it more. He'd only known Command to go one way. He thought himself to be reasonably adept at using it in that one way. At the very least, he'd managed to push Firyr, Nila, and Blackthorn through the Second Boundary off the strength of it.

"What if a General is meant to do more than that, though?" Oliver wondered, as he sliced the air in two with his sword. "What if a true General could push a man that he knew well as far as the Third Boundary?"

"I think you to be mistaken in this, Oliver," Claudia cautioned. Her words came as clearly as if he was standing beside him in his state of reaching. Whenever he opened his mind to new ideas, inevitably, it was the Fragments that seemed to speak first.

"Obviously!" Ingolsol bit in. "Those other fools can't give a push. They dare not. They're not greedy enough."