Thank you. It isn't warm, of course, or effusive but it is sincere. Questions at all are a gamble, but he has an answer and he now has something he can use against this idiot when he chooses to, without having to pry out the specifics on his own. If there's a price later - or had been in the moment - the answer alone was worth it. If it hadn't worked out... well, risk and benefit ratios.

Meanwhile he snorts, which doubles as a response to that insight and now much clearer understanding of Zerxus, as well as the soft response.

"And you agreed to obey me for a year. I'm not certain you're a good judge on the line between trust and stupidity, even if I understood what how much I trust anyone has to do with you thinking my life was 'awful'."