"Well, it's the word 'serve' that I'm bound to object to," he says frankly. "Not the clauses, although when it comes to Z--" He pauses again. "Well, back to that in a moment, and to my person who I wouldn't call a pet. But when you say it that way, it sounds too much like giving something of Hers away. Anou..." he looks sad. He is. "It's not just what Val-kun was thinking while his brain was ashed with grief, is it. You really think I betrayed you, too."
"Saa, well, if it weren't for taking care of Val-kun well enough," his smile goes bright and cold, "I'd say he was too stupid to live. Of course he's always hated me, since he's as self-righteous and inflexible as a priest of Ceiphied; that's nothing. But there's a little matter involving his grandfather--you know what Rezo was to me before the Shard ate him, Gaav-dono--and another little question of him deciding to think insane and offensive things based on my not trying to do him a favor he never asked me to do. I can't be charitable towards someone who just goes ahead and thinks whatever he wants regardless of evidence or reason, without the least intention of second-guessing himself. Especially someone who's proven that he does have a brain to make use of when he chooses to."
"Mmm," he agrees, with a blissful little smile. "Aside from enjoying his company, having a person like that at my side in a fight like that is very satisfying." As far as Iago goes, he just smiles and says, "Aaa, he has that." It's hardly Phibrizzo's exclusive province, especially since Iago, like Xel, agrees that there's a difference between deception and lying.
"Sou ka; will it?"
No, I was looking for it earlier but haven't seen it so far...