[Cid sighs. It's obvious through the connection how conflicted he is. Link is a Savant, which makes him trustworthy, but...]

It has nothing to do with you. A Meridian attacked a fellow Zenite unprovoked in front of me not long ago. She was someone I thought highly of, until that moment.

[In other words, this isn't a Zenith versus Meridian thing, this is entirely on Cid.]

...I apologize. It's unbecoming of me, given the situation.