The cleric is in the dungeons. They're... you know, dungeons, but fairly normal ones; the torture implements are kept in a separate room. The cleric is in a plain room with a bedroll, has been given food and water, and has a torch lit outside her cell. Ivet ordered the bedroll, and considers it generous treatment, provided partly because the woman is pregnant and partly because Ivet doesn't expect her to be in the dungeons for very long.

She's a very young woman. Probably a teenager, especially since orcs mature slightly faster than humans. She sits calmly on the bedroll.

"Can you ask her - what's her name?"

A short exchange in orcish. "Ragash."

"Can you tell me about the raid and what happened?"

(Ivet provides some context, since it would be pretty weird for Ivet to be asking about something she was present for; the man is a priest of a foreign deity and wants to know if what happened violates his religious teachings.)

"She says that she was living in a camp in the mountains. She did not notice they were surrounded until the human warriors began to shoot the men with arrows. She did not try to run because she could heal, and did heal her husband twice before he fell. Her husband and three of her brothers were killed, and are in Volkorgoth. One of her brothers was killed after, with a sword, so he may be there as well. She says that the human men looted the village and burnt what remained after, and that they killed the older men and some of the babies, and then moved the women and children down the mountain. They were held outside for several days, and some of the young men were taken elsewhere. Then they and the people from a few other camps were made to march south."

"Had she made war on the humans? Had her husband and her brothers?"

"She says her husband had. And her older brothers, but not the younger ones."

"Did she make a deal with the people who took her prisoner? What deal was that?"

"She says she agreed to heal them if they would agree to let her keep her unborn children. And that there was a man who wanted her, and she agreed that he could have her if he kept the children safe, but that he does not want her now."

"If she were free, what would she do?"

A pause, here.

"She asks what you mean."

"If these men told her that she could go if she wanted, back into the mountains, or stay, and have the man who is interested in her, or not have him, what would she choose."

"She says that if she were given a horse, she would go, but she does not know if she can make the journey without one."

"Are there things that would be cheap to do that would make being a prisoner here better for her."

"She says she does not want to stay in the dungeons, but was told she would be moved soon. I intended that Alfonso would watch her, when I said that, but I can move her to the rooms where some of the other orc women stay if I may assign a guard. Easier if it can be a male guard, but I can assign a man whose mother lives there, if you think that is acceptable. And she says that she would like her unholy symbol back."

That makes sense to withhold from her so she won't channel. "Was she mistreated, as she understands it, once taken prisoner and on the way here."

"She says her captors have dealt with her honorably."

"All right. Those are all of my questions. I appreciate her answering them.

I'm fine with a male guard if he won't force her to have sex with him. I assume you know who'd be trustworthy among your people."

"I do. Do you want me to move her now? I can help you speak with the other women now, or after."

"Whenever's convenient."

"I will tell others to move her, then." Ivet knows all the half orcs here, and knows who is capable of following some Extremely Simple Instructions. She is not worried; normally they would not be allowed her anyway.

She can take Arn to the other women. There are a set of adjacent rooms around a central gathering space, simply but reasonably furnished. There are seven women here, right now, most of them full orcs but two of them half. There are many more half-orc children, plus a small number of human infants and toddlers. There are many more boys than girls, among the children.

"I do not believe the Archduke meant to forbid you from going into the main space, but I can bring them out if you wish."

"Wherever they would be more comfortable, I think."

She asks the ones who don't speak Taldane.

"They do not wish to get up. I am with you; they know me."

Arn would like to hear about the raids in which they were captured, and whether their tribes were warring with the humans, and whether they were mistreated, and what they would like to change about their captivity. ...does he guess right that the half-orc women were born as slaves?

Most of these women were captured several years ago; one of them is herself too old to bear children, and has been here for decades. They can still describe the raids clearly. Some of them disapprove of the killing of children; some of them disapprove that boys old enough to fight were sent to the mines rather than killed. One of them says that the Menadorians kill the men cleanly even after capture, if they catch them in the mountains, and this is honorable. Another says that she was raped in the camp before the march south. Their tribes all raided humans sometimes, although some say it was not every year, or that they raided mostly other orcs. 

The older ones have a laundry list of things they want - nicer food, toys for the children, a servant to help clean the rooms. They want their older sons to visit more often. They clarify that they are, in fact, allowed to leave the rooms, but their sons should make more time for them anyway.

The half-orc women were indeed born as slaves. They speak fluent Taldane, and don't need Ivet to translate.