"and I am avoiding further discussion on the matter." His voice tightens, sharpens, gaze flickering over to Connor in an instant. "This is not something you were meant to see, not something you were meant to know. Not something anyone was meant to know."

Blood he's spilled, actions he's taken. Losses he's ever had a chance to grieve over for so soon after it was the contract, the failure, the mission to save the world. No time for Zevran to do...anything but fall in line.

"I cannot tell if you are intending to be sarcastic and tactless or if you simply cannot help it." Were he a human? Zevran would have left him on the trail alone and made for the trees. But he isn't human- not enough to truly earn his ire.