If it was most anyone else, he'd recognise dread for what it is; he's seen every flavour of fear in every kind of face, after all.

But even he hasn't spent much time chatting to archdevils, and it isn't exactly hard to assume that Bruce is just being unflappable as an intimidation tactic.

Zerxus still doesn't answer his question, not immediately; he takes a moment to heal the damage, though it doesn't do anything to mend his armour.

Hmm. Sceptical, but less hostile, at least on the surface. He is intriguing, I suppose, and he seems to have connections.

"No, I did not come here to die. I came here to make a difference."

Ugh.