"I have been hard on you, since our battling with the Verna," Blackwell noted. "Because I need you to be more than you are. You stand at the centre of a great many things, and still I see that you are insufficient. But that does not mean I do not recognize your efforts. Your strategy, against the Colonel Bookhorne, it was unconventional, and uncouth, and it would not work for long if you fought by yourself. But there is at least a place for it. At the very least, it is of the level of a Colonel."