Okay apparently it's stabbing time.

Yep that was shamanspeak for "please break my hands".

If they're going to kill her regardless, she's going to spill as much blood as she can first. If she can't use her hands, she'll bite and kick at anyone who's made the mistake of leaving skin exposed.

That makes it a lot harder to take her alive, but fortunately that is not a strict requirement!

Awww, it looked like she was going to cast a spell that Nenio has never seen before! It totally would have been worth letting her escape if it meant she got to see that. She will assist with capture once it becomes sufficiently obvious which side she's supposed to be fighting on if she doesn't want her hands broken. Instead she will experimentally determine whether spirit girl is powerful enough that Nenio's Blinding Ray doesn't blind her. (She is not.)

It takes him a moment to get his bearings, but of course he will gladly assist with apprehending the murderess as quickly as possible. How unfortunate that doing so speedily will make it more difficult to capture her alive.

She goes down.

Of course once she's down Blai can try to land a Stabilize but there were quite a few people after her and it may not take.

It fizzles like there's no one there.

"This is most unfortunate! Finding another opportunity to study her style of magic will be quite difficult. Would someone care to explain what that was about?"

"She was suspected of murder and resisted arrest."

"Ah. I suppose that explains why she was wearing an amulet intended to mask her alignment."

"...and you didn't think to tell anyone?"

"Do you mean to say you didn't know?"

"Kindly alert someone responsible if you notice anyone hiding their alignment in the future, Nenio."

"My apologies. I will endeavor to remember your lack of comprehension of the arcane arts."

"Hey, I'm a wizard too, and I didn't notice anything funny about it!"

"Fascinating. Do you also struggle with similar tasks, such as—"

"Nenio, just because you're some kind of genius wizard doesn't mean the rest of us are, okay?"

"The amulet detected as magic yesterday but I didn't linger on it." 'Cause of already suspecting her of murder.

"Should I, uh, do something with this head?"

"One of my people can take care of it."

"So, what's the plan now?"

"Well, I haven't had breakfast yet, and then we are going to track down a report of some shadows."

Does the Chief want to see his shadow now is not the time.