When Ebonshield was but an initiate under the Master and his senior estelares, how she thirsted to be allowed the thrill of the true battle, instead of the seemingly pointless exercises and rote individual forms demanded of her instead. Of course, these things had not been pointless at all, serving as the foundation of what was to come later, but that truth was beyond her understanding when she was first initiated. Yet here was her VIP, to whom she had proposed to teach combat in the fullest, and before they had even begun, he expressed the concern that perhaps they were already moving too quickly.