Parson is like the surgeon for Erfworld. Sizemore agrees his world needs the operation, but that doesn't mean he can handle the blood. He can't stand how effortlessly and unthinkingly Parson cuts through all the rules, the things every caster holds sacred and unquestioned.

While everyone else is thinking of how these new twists can be best used for the benefit of their faction, Sizemore only asks the question "What will remain after we are done? Is fixing the endless war worth expanding the war to places and tactics and fronts previously left peaceful?" and we still don't know what he will decide.