One day, perhaps, Zerxus will know enough to catch that - but for now he just sighs and accepts the direction. He really should start writing sooner than later.

I imagine he thinks you've been deprived. Asmodeus is always multitasking; the difference, here, is that he lets Bruce hear it in the distracted undercurrent to his disdain. As if they're in on the same joke. Even now, reaching for the dream, he's thinking about you. About who you should have been.

It's not a level of insight he usually displays, with mortals who don't in some way belong to him. There's definitely something going on with those dreams.