He remembered how some of the men had run from the battle. As he recalled their terror-struck faces he felt scorn for them. They had surley been more fleet and more wild than was absolutely necessary. They were weak mortals. As for himself, he had fled with descretion and dignity.

     This passage was a little unsettling to me. For one the boy is a hypocrite. He himself ran from the battle, wheather he did it wildly or not, he still ran and that makes him no better than them he shuns. Another thing is he called them weak mortals. That makes him sound like he is above them, like he is a god that can't do wrong. This guy needs to a big dose of reallity.