[ A knight, huh? McGillis likes the word for how romantic it sounds. It wouldn't be too bad to call himself a knight, if anyone was liable to take such a declaration seriously.

The correcting to 'soldier' earns a nod. ]

Patient or masochistic, I am not quite sure myself.

[ 'Sadistic' is the true answer, if his former subordinates had anything to say about it, with the way McGillis has been working them to death. ]

But your choice of wording intrigues me - what kind of world are you from?