The look of sheer disgust the Garlean turns on Q'uila is as if she'd just personally strangled his pet dog and then eaten the corpse. "How little you understand if you believe this is about vanquishing prey or the pleasure of the hunt. Perhaps you're not as familiar with his actions as you think. Or my own."

Which means that entire conversation has just become pointless to Zenos, as he's not really interested in teaching moral philosophy to savages. Their grasp on it would clearly be rather ... lacking.

Tidus hasn't yet been put in that category though! He looked naive, but naive could be educated.

He'll return that sharp look from Elidibus, without hesitation, and there's that creeping bitterness again. Garlemald had been played, and played hard.. and then paid for it in blood. "Should I sit idle and decide to let matters rest merely because it is a mirror of my people which may be brought low? Are you not a Paragon of ruination, willing and able to slay all before you should you think it will advance your goals? Though rather fewer than fourteen, I should think."

Three had disappeared without a trace, rumor had it Eorzea's champion had seen to them. The two he and Gaius dealt with reduced it further, and their pursuit would inevitably continue. Eventually the lesson would be learned.

"It seems you have already managed to insinuate yourself amongst the the unsuspecting, Elidibus. Well done." Earlier.. there had been something he felt worth revisiting, and it is to Tidus that he shifts his attention. "I am quite willing to not have others involving themselves in my affairs. Will it soothe your concerns if I make some agreement to keep the uninvolved from deliberate harm? With scant few exceptions the people here are not enemies of Garlemald, I have no obligation to treat them as if they were."