Bab 1129: A Changing World - Part 7

So he told himself, but even in acknowledging that fact, it didn't turn away that he had indeed failed.

He took a step. A stronger step than he was able to take a week ago. He was more able to measure his progress than anyone else, for he'd all but sealed off his mind when the week had begun, seizing upon the only narrow path he had to possibly progress. And so, as soon as he had regained control, those changes had seemed sudden. It was almost disorienting the degree to which they manifest themselves.

"Pah…" Ingolsol snorted his disgust. Oliver thought he would rampage more than he had, after being overturned so easily, but he almost seemed accepting of the fact. There was a trace of satisfaction to him that he was fighting hard to conceal.