Blackthorn criticized that manner of thinking, stating that while an enemy was still alive, there was no point thinking as far ahead as the future, lest they pull an unexpected trick, and stab them in the back.
It was violence that the Blackthorn General was looking for, but Hod pulled him away from it. The violence he foresaw would land too close to the streets of the Capital, harming the civilians that lived there. It would not instil them towards any sort of favour with the citizens of their newly conquered realm. So he bid that they wait, and Oliver listened to him.
He listened, long enough to know what his duty might temporarily be, for a temporary little fire to animate him, long enough for him to march into King Emerson's throne room, and speak with enough truth that he did not hate himself for what he said.
