[ It isn't as if he'd thought he'd done nothing wrong. Rezo at least intellectually knows the difference between right and wrong, even if he's a believer in using wrong for the sake of right. And then, with how horrendously Shabranigdu's revival had turned out (and how much worse it could have gone if Lina Inverse hadn't been involved) and the years he spent in the Hellmaster's Jar afterwards with little to do but reflect...
Well. At any rate, he can understand how Zelgadis might have come to that particular conclusion. The idea that Zelgadis may have actually blamed himself- at least in part- for what Rezo did to him is more bewildering.
Almost as bewildering as the part where Zelgadis admits that he hated Rezo the most for not caring about him. That part in particular stuns him into silence for a few solid seconds while he tries to digest it. ]
That... Zelgadis, why would-
[ Well. Zelgadis had pledged his loyalty to him. He'd assured Rezo how proud he and the others were to serve the Red Priest. Rezo had just unconsciously assumed that had changed, that he'd stopped caring about Rezo's opinion when he'd realized that Rezo wasn't the man he'd presented himself as.
And maybe that is the case, and Zelgadis is asking on behalf of that confused, betrayed boy that he'd been. It's still difficult for Rezo to wrap his head around the idea, and he truthfully hadn't thought much about what Zelgadis was thinking or feeling when the issue of his eyes had been crowding his thoughts.
Rezo pinches the bridge of his nose, exasperated with his own confusion. ]
Clearly I understand your motivations even less than I thought. [ What with convincing himself in the first place that Zelgadis would be basically okay with being a chimera! ] I suppose you were very young at the time. How long has it been? Ten years?
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Well. At any rate, he can understand how Zelgadis might have come to that particular conclusion. The idea that Zelgadis may have actually blamed himself- at least in part- for what Rezo did to him is more bewildering.
Almost as bewildering as the part where Zelgadis admits that he hated Rezo the most for not caring about him. That part in particular stuns him into silence for a few solid seconds while he tries to digest it. ]
That... Zelgadis, why would-
[ Well. Zelgadis had pledged his loyalty to him. He'd assured Rezo how proud he and the others were to serve the Red Priest. Rezo had just unconsciously assumed that had changed, that he'd stopped caring about Rezo's opinion when he'd realized that Rezo wasn't the man he'd presented himself as.
And maybe that is the case, and Zelgadis is asking on behalf of that confused, betrayed boy that he'd been. It's still difficult for Rezo to wrap his head around the idea, and he truthfully hadn't thought much about what Zelgadis was thinking or feeling when the issue of his eyes had been crowding his thoughts.
Rezo pinches the bridge of his nose, exasperated with his own confusion. ]
Clearly I understand your motivations even less than I thought. [ What with convincing himself in the first place that Zelgadis would be basically okay with being a chimera! ] I suppose you were very young at the time. How long has it been? Ten years?