"Because we just knocked out three wizards and I'm not involving the Oracles in that."

There isn't a hint of shame or fear in Zerxus's gaze, but he does look raggedly overwhelmed, in a way he'd hide with almost anyone else.

He also doesn't ask before maneuvers - very delicately, despite the unconscious human in his arms - towards the cot Laerryn uses when she sleeps here. (Which is, he suspects, officially more nights than she doesn't these days.)