"—I know him. He came to our temple, he said he needed healing — we took him in, we fed him—"

...Okay, he knows he was going to keep his mouth shut, but that's a great opportunity.

"And there's not a damn thing you can do about it if you don't want your pathetic goddess renouncing you. What's next, singing songs to me? Come on, try and get me to repent, maybe one little poem is all I need and I'll give up Baphomet forever—"

Sosiel punches him in the nose.

"- Ember, can you put one or both of these men to sleep."

"I can try?" She aims for the scared wizard, Sosiel seems too angry to want to sleep.

It lands; he's out.

It would be a really bad idea to wake him up by continuing to punch him, but it's so tempting. Instead he is standing over his body, breathing heavily, clenching and unclenching his fists. "That bastard—"

"Thank you, Ember." Blai ties the guy up in a way that interposes himself between wizard and Sosiel. "Songbird, I'd appreciate a briefing on Shelyn's teachings about conduct toward surrenders and prisoners earliest convenience, I need to know where you can and cannot be useful and have no desire to contradict Her on the matter if she has some specific guideline of which I am unaware."

"We're not supposed to kill people who've surrendered if they're really repentant, no matter what they've done, but — you heard him, he didn't really mean it—"

"If he had punched you after his surrender then I would have agreed that he was perfidious and helped put him down. It looked instead like a rather cunning attempt to provoke you into Falling, which, again, pertains to what Shelyn's rules might be. Fortunately, you did not kill him, so if that is the extent of Her opinion on the matter you are in the clear."

That's not the point, the point is that the necromancer lied to his friends and betrayed them and tried to enslave their souls to Baphomet and made fun of the very idea of repenting of it. He wishes the necromancer had punched him, then maybe he could have let him have it—

—and, also, he feels sick for wanting that, that's not how Shelynites are supposed to feel, Trever wouldn't feel that way — that doesn't actually make him feel any less angry—

—Select Artigas used to be Asmodean, what does he know about Shelyn's rules — but it didn't sound like he'd been tripping over himself to renounce Asmodeus, and it's still better that he was able to find redemption eventually—

He looks down at his fists and very deliberately uncurls them. "—You're right. I'm sorry. She — commands us to care for our enemies, and treat them with compassion if we can, and I don't know if she has a rule about punching but... I don't think it's what she would want."

"He hurt your friends very badly. Does that mean it's good to hurt him too?"

He is aware that the correct answer is no but that doesn't mean he likes it.

Cultist is tied up and gagged now. "Ser, can he be attached to your horse in some fashion to get him to an appropriate cell, and then perhaps we can scare up a Sarenrite?"

"We could... drape him over it, and I can walk alongside?"

(Ember's sleep-magic is in many respects better than a Sleep, but much worse on duration. He wakes back up. He can't talk, which is kind of a shame, he had some great quips to throw in Vaenic's face.)

That's part of the point of the gag, yep. Blai drapes him over the horse.

She heals everyone with visible injuries, including the cultist. (Seelah and Valor are still injured after her little trick she can use as much as she wants; she tags them with some extra Cure Light Wounds spells.)

It doesn't take very much walking before the anger starts to fade away and he's left with just the sick feeling in his stomach and something a little like a hangover clouding his head. 

"I'm sorry. I don't know what came over me."

(He's looking at Blai, not the prisoner.)

"...as in, we should check you for vestiges of enchantment, or is this a figure of speech."

Blink. "I guess it can't hurt, but that's not how I meant it."

"Detect Magic." Pause. "I do not sense the lingering effects of any enchantments. Enough time has elapsed that I would no longer be able to detect the auras of many common enchantment spells, so I cannot rule out that hypothesis, but I did not observe the necromancer casting any such spells."

"Thank you, Nenio." She's really so great to have around actually? Like, he was not wrong in his first impression of her but she is in addition to being super duper insane also very convenient and it is possible to plan around the nature of her madness. "Then perhaps you mean nothing like this has ever happened to you before?"

Nod. "I've been angry before, but never like that."

"Have you been in comparable situations - with prisoners, people trying to rile you up, both -"