And it seemed to Tyburn that the Dorsai face had gone away from him, somehow become as remote and stony as a face carved high up on some icy mountain's top. That was the mistake Kenebuck made, too. That was why he thought that stripped of military elements, I'd be easy to kill. Tyburn looked up at him, felt a chill run down his spine as icy as wind off a glacier. Ian looked from his far distance down into Tyburn's eyes and the sadness rang as clear in his voice finally, as iron-shod heels on barren rock.
Nothing is obvious to the uninformed.
Cut the baloney and get on with something. If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly until you have time to do it well. Don't back away from passion. Failure is success' only launching pad. The bigger the goof the better.