"Yes. They're calling it protective custody, which means they are worried someone will try to assassinate you to get revenge for the riot, but you'll probably be charged tomorrow for the speech."

"Oh." 

She was careful of the law, when writing the speech. She asked Alicia and Victoria to consult the decrees about pamphlets, and the things Elie had said about not calling for duels or for delegates to be expelled, and they didn't do any of the things that weren't allowed.

The censors initially approved Abrogail I, the play. But when they saw how people reacted -

"I understand."

"- It's because inciting people to kill other people is illegal," he says. "The trial will be about whether you did that."

"...is there something that I really need to understand, that you're trying to say to me? 

Because I'm very tired, and I will try very hard to understand if it matters but if you are just trying to be kind by ensuring I know what's going on - I have lived in Cheliax for eighteen years. I am not an idiot, as much as it must seem that way. If I did something like this under the old government they would try to catch me and kill me, and I would live in the hills and meet people in secret. And you think - the government is just - and I should not try that, and anyway it is too late, and anyway wizards can still find you." In Pezzack they killed the wizards first, for this among other reasons. "So they'll kill me, and I don't really need to understand."

"- You might get executed or you might get exiled to Lastwall or you might get released on a pledge not to do it again. All that is undecided, and you should come with us, and I will make sure nobody kills you before your case is decided, and then you should sleep."

He's probably not lying. They say paladins don't lie. Valia, despite not being a paladin, doesn't lie, because Iomedae was a paladin and so presumably doesn't approve of it. "All right," she says very tiredly, and goes with him.

The Church will intervene somehow, if it looks like they're actually going to execute her. Executing her might be the only thing that would be worse for public order than doing nothing.

Alfirin probably won't do it. By his best guess at her motives she's perfectly content to stand back and let the Church make the greatest possible fool of itself, which would indicate underreacting rather than overreacting to the riots. (He'd suspect her of having cursed Cansellarion's wisdom if he didn't know just how the man had done it to himself.) Even if that's not her plan, Élie Cotonnet might insist that delegates' speeches in the convention hall not be policed in any way whatsoever. She might, however, leave the decision to her friend the Lord Inquisitor, who—probably won't enforce the law any differently on a delegate or a cleric of Iomedae than he would on anyone else.

At the very least, they can send her a good lawyer.

He leaves her with Tauler and the Archduke's men, and Teleports back to Vigil for a long and unpleasant debrief.