Or invisibly watching them! One of those! Possibly both of those!

"Alexeara - I assume if we could help the Church would've told us - but -"

Jilia was going to... Ah, well, she'll just have to send a letter.

"Lord-Marshal, is there information we should be aware of about the fact that a power of Hell currently rules Razmiran?"

Narikopolus has absolutely no confidence that if they could help the church would have told them. He is leaning out of feeling frustrated about this.

He holds up a hand to forstall further questions a moment, carefully reviews what he plans to say, and only then speaks.

"Nerius, Jornet, Goés, Saiville, you are ordered to keep this matter secret from any person besides the Lord-Marshal of the Reclamation, the precentors-martial of Lastwall, and the high priest of Iomedae on Golarion, or any persons authorized by them. Meet with me tomorrow morning after prayers. You may leave now if you prefer to know fewer confidential things.

The rest of you are advised likewise, though I have no authority to give you orders."

Yet! But this can be improved upon!

Aaaaaaa???

....she's not leaving unless someone tells her to, though.

"Your Grace, I would be pleased to attend a dinner of yours again on another evening, in the hopes that it will be much less eventful than tonight was. But I believe I shall depart for the night."

Feliu is wallpaper.

Joan-Pau isn't going anywhere.

Absolutely not leaving.

"I don't prefer to avoid learning confidential things, but while I can commit not to intentionally revealing them, I expect to be imperfect at behaving exactly as I would if I didn't know them, and if you would prefer me to leave given that fact I will of course obey your orders."

Does she prefer to know fewer confidential things? ...the samosas have ensnared her. They should not feature in her decision at all. This is is hard to do perfectly but easy to do imperfectly. "Understood sir, I will find you tomorrow." Up she gets.

"Does that extend to my horse, sir."

Bird hiding in an unusually large bag is also wallpaper, just very curious wallpaper.

"Nerius, let us discuss your concerns in more detail tomorrow, after which I can repeat whatever portion of what I am intending to say tonight seems prudent considering them. Goés, that does extend to your horse."

Elorri will stay, he just needed to have that clarified.

He nods and departs.

Carlota is competent at confidentality. Axis is good at that, in particular, for people. ...she should ask the Lord Marshal if she may tell the Queen about this because she'd like to inform the Queen about the demiplane incursion, it has security and international relations implications.

Well, this is certainly exciting. 'Exciting' is very rarely a positive thing when it comes to participating in southern politics, but it is, evidently, an inevitable one.

She looks to her father.

Trying to figure out what the safest course of action is here! It's really very inconvenient that the Iomedans refuse to just tell you what to do!

They - are trying to be Iomedae's. Iomedae did not want them to know. Morgethai obviously did, although it's not at all obvious that she wanted him to know. She can't have cared deeply about the secret getting out, to do it like this. Does knowing any secrets they don't already know give anyone more reason to kill them - but the Lord Marshal is planning to tell them more things anyway, he can just not tell them anything else that would be deeply destructive if it were to get out, except apparently for some reason he's planning to do that anyway - is it more dangerous to have only the half of the secret that Morgethai but not Cansellarion wishes for them to have -

An Asmodean would just tell them this never happened and implicitly or explicitly threaten to kill them if they acted otherwise, and a part of him deeply misses that.

He looks to Narikopolus.

Narikopolus isn't leaving.

You cannot un-know a secret. You also cannot, actually, easily regain one if you pass one up.

He nods to Valentia, and does not get up himself.

"If you'll excuse me, Your Grace. It was a lovely meal." She will bow and depart.

"The church has have communed with Iomedae about whether Mephistopheles is secretly ruling Razmiran, having first heard this from Cyprian, who was told it by queen Aspexia during the four-day war. Iomedae declined to answer this question. Our inference is that She believes that we can operate effectively and wisely without Her confirmation, and that Mephistopheles is paying Her a great deal to decline to identify Him because He values secrecy highly; She also declines to answer questions about whether other people besides Razmir are secretly Mephistopheles. I find it very inconvenient, but not so inconvenient that I would rather a hundred thousand more souls burned in Hell.

Theologians within the Church are currently contemplating whether it is likely that Iomedae has been additionally paid for us to keep secret any conclusions we draw about Mephistopheles' identity or actions, and what we should do if that is the case. This possibility is also very inconvenient. If we had actionable information or conclusions that would substantially help the cause of Good for us to make known, we would make it known despite that concern. If we knew or confidently believed that Razmiran were ruled by Mephistopheles, and we believed that any of you would if informed substantially help us to change that, those people would already have been informed.

Many arms of the church of Iomedae are assisting Cyprian in Razmiran. We began making plans to do so shortly after having been informed by him that he believes Razmir to be secretly Mephistopheles, and having made some effort to determine whether Cyprian was deliberately lying.

Operations in Razmiran are proceeding on a schedule that we expect to lead to victory before Arodus, but not as certainly as any of us would like. We are not in any way short on able soldiers; We are not even short on powerful heroes. Operations against Razmir are mostly constrained by a shortage of very powerful spellcasters, and in particular by a shortage of gates.

I do not believe Morgethai to have lied to us this evening. With regard to everything besides Mephistopheles' identity and actions, on which I offer no comment, I do not believe Morgethai to be factually mistaken in any of the things she said this evening.

I am willing to field additional questions though I expect you will find the answers to all the most important ones unsatisfying."