Hm. I think you should not have accepted a gift as precious as that without asking for more of a guarantee from the get-go

[ victim blaming? he doesn't actually care about the Zenite's shards, they're GREAT targets though!

also, he's not going to argue that meridian didn't do this, but like.... this sounds familiar. ]

We already know Zenith's go-to method when unhappy is sowing discord and lies, anyways. Something happens to your pet rock that you failed to account for: blame Meridian. Seen it with Alenroux, then called your bluff and proved you for the liars you were before.