His father had always said that courage wasn't about being fearless. Any fool could claim to feel no fear, and most of them died proving themselves liars. Courage was about acting despite the fear, about finding solutions when the obvious ones had failed, about looking at a situation that seemed hopeless and finding the one angle nobody else had considered.
Rhys's eyes swept the tunnel, cataloging details his borderland training had taught him to notice. The habits of a lifetime spent watching treelines for movement, scanning clearings for ambush points, reading terrain the way scholars read books.
