"Well I'm obviously not qualified to tell anyone anything about how Iomedae works but killing people is bad, especially people who are - making a mistake and who might go to Hell for it - and I don't understand that rule and I think you did the right thing."

"Raising me cost more than five thousand gold."

"It seems very Evil and dangerous to me to say that because you are so important that people will spend a lot of money to return you from the dead you ought to kill people sometimes when it wouldn't be the right thing to do for anyone who wasn't important. It seems like ...not just accepting that there will have to be evil nobles until we have a better way to deal with monsters, but saying that if those evil nobles need to have a couple girls chained up in their room to give them the motivation to fight monsters then that's just for the best really -"

"I also came to the conclusion that I should not kill any of them, and so I wasn't ready to and didn't, and then when I was raised that was the first thing I asked of a better-catechized Iomedaean, and admittedly I was trying to catch up with Archmage Naima's staffer as soon as I heard you were here so I did not stay to ask if that was doctrinal or his personal opinion or circumstantial or what, and in general I am very confused."

"Well you certainly shouldn't listen to me about it because there are a lot of things I don't know anything about." Sigh. "I'm glad you didn't kill them and I think it was decent of you and I am sure it was very scary and if there's actually some complicated reason it was the wrong decision it's - better to make wrong decisions that don't get lots of innocent people killed, than wrong decisions that do."

"That sounds right, I guess.

"Have you been all right in here?"

"The guards only come in to give me food." And if they tried more she was planning to try to kill them but - that's different than people trying to kill you because they know you were a priest of Asmodeus and reasonably think you still are, right? "Apparently there is to be a trial. I don't know when, or on what charges."

"Is there anything you need read for you?"

"The Archmage Cotonnet sent a secretary. - thank you, though."

"You're welcome."

"I would be interested in hearing about the other trials, if anyone has written up anything about what they were like. Just so I know what to expect. I know how it worked in Pezzack but I do not think that's at all the thing that Queens do."

"If they are public I can try to attend at least one if there are any before yours."

"You shouldn't feel obligated, I'm sure there's more important work to do, but - if you did happen to it would be nice to know just - how long it is, and which parts you're supposed to speak at, and how many people watch, and whether they do the execution straight after or let you talk to a priest first."

Nod.

She appreciates him enormously for not jumping in to reassure her that probably something nice will happen. Even if it's only because he was a priest of Asmodeus for twenty years. 

"Do you want me to stay or go?"

"I appreciate your company but was not really intending to tie up half Iomedae's resources in Westcrown for the next - however long until the trial."

He nods and gets up to go. Though he doubts Archmage Naima's man has stayed around for that entire conversation so he's not sure how he will get back to the temple safely.

Valia returns to pointlessly pacing only now with even more deep confusion.