"You were always stubborn, Ratchet, but I never took you for a short-sighted idiot."

The cool facade breaks, just a little, as vitriol begins to drip from his voice.

"I don't care whether or not you think this is some - some test for her to be proven 'worthy', whatever the hell that means. What do you think will happen when she picks a fight with someone actually interested in killing her? Feel polite and consider restraint?"

"She's resourceful, she's not invincible, and it was never Ironfist's place to continue to inject our mistakes into her life."