"I see that in you," Torfus agreed.
"You would love it too, if you'd spent half a decade, chains on your wrist," the soldier said. "Freedom, this is. If they ever tried to chain me up again, with these skills, I'd kill them all."
Torfus didn't doubt it. The man was exceptional in his prowess for combat. He was far stronger than Torfus could ever hope to be physically, and he had the skills too to go with it. It was the evidence of all the training and battling he had done under Patrick command. It had made him a monster in human flesh.