It won't take much to distract him, or won't take much for him to become a threat to me...?
That one's rhetorical. The answer is likely both - though the second would take more. He is arrogant, yes, but he also sees the direction this is going and pretending that he cannot see the possibility being more than hinted at would require a level of obliviousness and stupidity he does not possess.
Besides, his father appears to be leading him in the direction of that conclusion.
He goes to the desk with his books and sits down, flips the first open and starts scanning pages... rapidly, looking for keywords, and only truly reading when he finds one. "The only credible threat to me or this city is my father. The people who live here are well aware their greatest protection from him is me." Zerxus is... so earnestly and endearingly backward. "You're very convinced your dream was prophetic of something."
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That one's rhetorical. The answer is likely both - though the second would take more. He is arrogant, yes, but he also sees the direction this is going and pretending that he cannot see the possibility being more than hinted at would require a level of obliviousness and stupidity he does not possess.
Besides, his father appears to be leading him in the direction of that conclusion.
He goes to the desk with his books and sits down, flips the first open and starts scanning pages... rapidly, looking for keywords, and only truly reading when he finds one. "The only credible threat to me or this city is my father. The people who live here are well aware their greatest protection from him is me." Zerxus is... so earnestly and endearingly backward. "You're very convinced your dream was prophetic of something."