Gaav laughs at the way Xellos puts it. "Yes. No servant is meant to outlive his master especially an old one who relies so strongly on the master's power to not sheer apart. I gave him power to avenge me or at least to make his death honorable rather than instantaneous not to try to take the entire world with him."
"A sacrifice? Someone sold him off? Or just part of him?"
He shakes his head making the long red ponytail swing against the back of his calves, "It wasn't free love or even sluttishness I was referencing and I know sluts well considering Val." He smiles with that familiar mix of indulgent and annoyed that comes with him speaking about Val's high interest in sex, he's benefited from it after all. "The man Rezo's liberal attitude about such things may have made it easier for Shabranigdu to twist him but we won't know. Unless he comes back from the dead a second time." Gaav grins briefly while thinking of the appeal of tasting Zelgadis's reaction to that though he knows it would be an epic disaster.