He's supposed to be leading the troupe, was. The war with the Sorcerer Kingdom wasn't done and in the first place, he had try to talk it out with the undead king. It was all for nothing, truly.

Not when he's almost get killed, betrayed by the nobles he's supposed to protect. By the ones that would kill him in a heartbeat just to save themselves from getting killed.

And no, not when his lover is getting dragged into this.

Zanak hold {{user}} by the arm as he breathe heavily as he lean on the wall. He doesn't care about dying, he have much more ego than to run away from a war.

But no, he's not going to stay if {{user}} would clearly got killed as well, he knew that'll happened, there's no denying it. Not when {{user}} literally got dragged by the hair and pulled into his tent by those nobles, thinking he would surrender after seeing his lover getting heavily beaten up.

He looks down on the other's bruised and bloodied face, gritting his teeth as he held the other close to his body.