Valia blinks disbelievingly at him. "- lot of these people aren't dead yet. I'm a priest. I'm out of channels but I can - they'll hold on until help comes. Or - are Asmodeans coming instead?" She looks around the street, though she can no longer see very far because of the pouring rain. 

"Keep working," he says. He is. "We'll keep working until you freeze or someone else comes to take it over and we'll take you in then."

Freeze? Is she cold? Oh, she is, and hasn't noticed. She thinks she'll try to go back to not noticing, it's not as if noticing was doing anything useful. She keeps working. 

Five minutes later Xavier will come back from the Temple of Abadar with six men with strong backs, two of whom are going to go ahead and get people out of gutters so Valia just has to tap and four of whom are going to start transporting them back to the temple to get them warm and under cover.

Great. Tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap whenever she comes to a street corner she picks the direction with more visible bodies, if there is one. 

Joan-Pau sees no reason to believe he should stop this, though the conscripts will get annoyed eventually.

The Sending finishes.

"Ardiaca and the Archduke are talking to Valia. You should be present—" and he gives their current location.

He's been walking a few paces behind Xavier and Joan-Pau, now, watching but not saying anything. "I Sent for Ser Tauler to meet us here," he says now. "We should wait near this location."

Oh the conscripts getting annoyed is a problem Valia's qualified to solve! She'll walk over to them and give them Guidance and a tired smile. "Every man you pull out of these ditches lives when he would otherwise have died. I know you're tired, I know the weather is horrendous, but - you could spend the whole rest of your life trying to do the right thing and not do as much of it as you do right here. You are heroes, and I am grateful, and so are a hundred men whose names we don't know, and so is Heaven.

The man telling her to wait here she's going to ignore! They've helped everyone here! There are places to be!

They can follow the trail of men hauling bodies. Xavier is managing the hauling; he sends a hand whenever one is short but mostly he's trying to cajole or charm or overwhelm everyone he encounters into joining the rescue mission.

Joan-Pau will raise an apologetic eyebrow to Riudaure. He's following Valia around, watching for people trying to murder her.

Valia has tracked none of this and is just glad that people are helping now. 

Before that long Feliu will drop off a rooftop* near Jean and give him an inquiring look.

(*: It was faster.)

"I was advised that I should, quote, 'pick her up before someone less Good does it'. Ardiaca and the Archduke are guarding her while she Stabilizes people, right now—they went that way, you should be able to follow the trail of men carrying bodies. You should probably take over from the Archduke, I expect he's busy."

"—I don't speak for the Church, obviously, and she's not even in the Church so I don't know what they could even do. But obviously—if she just shows up at the temple for the morning channel people are going to think the Church approves of what happened tonight. I won't tell you what to say to her, but—in your place I'd encourage her to go to Vigil and seek guidance. I can do the Teleport in the morning, if you need one—I'm likely headed there anyway."

"Got it," he says, and takes off after Valia.

(The thing about Law is that he will listen to this, take it seriously, and then, and this is crucial, decide what to do. He is actually genuinely not in Riudaure's chain of command, and Valia is actually genuinely not in his chain of command, and this matters to Lastwall's ability to say that it doesn't run everything.)

When he shows up Valia is doing the same work she's been doing for the last hour. It's raining hard enough she doesn't immediately recognize him except as another strong man who can lift people.

Well, first he's going to go for a wrist-grip with Joan-Pau. 

Feliu not being around stopped feeling like missing a limb while he was off in Lastwall, but it's still very good to have him back.

And then he'll get back to helping.

Once the immediate screaming emergency is over, though, which may take a while - "Valia? Valia?"

She's exhausted and they haven't found a living person in a while and there are other people helping now and -

"Feliu. ...Blai's dead."

"Oh. I'm sorry."

He pauses for a moment. "I expect he'll be back in a few days."

Valia is vaguely aware of the existence of resurrection but it has never been relevant to anything in her life. "You think? The archmages will fix it? ...can they fix everyone?"

"I don't think they can resurrect more than a few people a day," he says. "But he's a delegate and a cleric of Iomedae so I expect they'll make a point of him."

His phrasing is - careful in the way it was when he was first trying to argue she had made a mistake. She tries to guess where he's pointed with it but everything is too confusing for her to make any headway. "You were right. You said that if people heard the speech they would riot tonight and -"

"Yes. I'm sorry."

He pauses.

"These gentlemen are here to arrest you for the riot." The ones who have been helping you move people for a few hours.

"Oh.

I - didn't riot. For the speech?"