A conqueror knows to wait and endure. If those are the only two choices before us, then I will wait until I can forge a new one.

[He did not relish simply waiting in this small quaint village. But its inhabitants intrigued him. He might even find the beginnings of an army in this place. And that was where the truth strength to create a new choice would come from. On his own, he had the power to do nothing.

It was these others that showed promise for him.]