Alexander listened to Lady Inayah's explanation of how Pasha Farzah got blindsided by his eldest son's habit with an understanding gaze.
The old man's nature was indeed like so- a family man and a hopeless romantic. The fact that he married against his father's and all his retainers' wishes and then launched a full scale rebellion against the god king just to avenge his daughter proved that without a shadow of a doubt.
Hence when the first reports about Mirzah started coming in, he probably thought he would rather believe the whole world was wrong than stomach the fact that such an ill fruit had been born of his own loins.
Mirzah was his own flesh and blood, someone he saw grow up right in front of his eyes, so could any father stomach such a thing?
