Oh, and Scar didn't know? Nonetheless, his warnings were easily waved off with feeble excuses. This insolent fool, how dare he not listen when the former lion had gone out of his way to offer a genuine warning?!

"Well, if you insist on being an idiot, who am I to stop you?" he said, not bothering to hide the annoyance in his voice. A shrug. "Yes, you just wait for the situation to fix itself. I'm sure your future victims wouldn't mind being shred to pieces because of your ignorance."

As long as that was not going to be him, Scar could not care any less. All the more reason to find a meat shield and leave the patient blocks as early as possible tonight, it would seem. For all he knew, the Scarecrow wasn't the only deadly combination of 'infected' and 'dimwitted'.

The king's annoyance made place for an air of indifference. "Just don't say I didn't warn you..."