Valia follows the mob, stabilizing the dying. She's out of channels by now but Iomedae can halt death with a cantrip, and it's faster to do to everyone than to check who's still breathing. Plenty of them are. In Pezzack it was different - many things were different but the relevant one is probably that men went out with their brothers and their neighbors, that if they were injured and there was still hope someone would try to drag them home. Westcrown is very large. These people are strangers to each other. Strangers united in the conviction that the convention is full of diabolists and everyone's forbidden to do anything and it's up to them to put an end to it.

Which is true. But she'd expected -

- what had she expected?

- there'll be time for that later. Right now there's no answer that'd change anything so she follows the mob, stabilizing the dying.