I have, ( is agreement and not rebuke; she can hear the extension of good faith in what he says, and accepts that for what it is rather than prickling. )

I expect you read in the same report that we were not rescued, but that we extricated ourselves from that situation. ( because that’s how it went down. ) I am a trick rider of some skill, ( she’s being modest, ) a talented lockpick, and adept with many magical means of eluding capture and captors when it’s required of me.

I simply don’t believe that the best use of my time, for my own sake or for Riftwatch’s, is to set aside the work that currently occupies it in order to become less skilled than those we already have to do work that is already being done that no one requires or wishes me to do. And I understand your view on the matter, but—

You must allow that we cannot all be warriors. Warriors are necessary. I believe that firmly and I have great esteem for those that occupy that role— allow me that I know it is not mine.