Garrick grinned wide as he felt the shard grip harder around his throat, listening to her words with neither shock or interest. "Come on now, do you really think that this has been the first time I've been choked by a foe who has an advantage on me. You never ending confidence points out the single weakness in your strategy, the simple fact that you are nothing but a fragment of a damned artifact." Garrick said as he spat in the shard's face, looking into her eyes with not a care in the world. "Me, the Paladins, we know that alone we simply don't have the strength to wield the weapon against darkness, nor do we find it necessary to eradicate it. Whether you kill me here, or my blade plunges deeper into your spine, as long as Maxi's missing a piece he's at a dead end."