Ghost regards him for a moment, and then snorts. "Physical power isn't everything, and I think we're both smart enough to know that," he says. "You're established and respected in the community here - your word is going to carry a lot more weight than that of a weird guy who just got here. You could do a hell of a lot of damage to someone with your words alone, if you wanted to."

Alex never needed anything more than words and a position of authority to do terrible things. It would take being willfully ignorant for Ghost to ignore that.