"....right, that one's going to be a problem, I absolutely do not have any power to detect True Intentions or whatever and if people think I do they're going to try to get me to show up for every trial of every idiot who thought his commanding officer's orders were a polite suggestion. Anevia, Camellia, thoughts?" 

Camellia drums her perfectly manicured pointed nails on the meeting room table. "You could just say no, commander. You don't actually have to do things that peasants ask you for."

"Rude but admittedly not false." 

Eyeroll "Of course I don't. What I do have to do, Camellia, are things Queen Galfrey asks me for, or I wouldn't be here in the first place, and she wants every warm body that won't definitely commit more crimes still capable of holding a sword. I could tell her I can't do that and she'll say 'but the possibility will be so good for morale! you should attend all the trials to make people feel seen and heard and pardon people occasionally to encourage them it's possible to repent, you don't do anything else with your spare time I think is valuable anyway' and I will be both inconvenienced and annoyed." 

Sigh. Monarchy is so annoying, nobles shouldn't have to report to anyone. Especially not to a paladin. 

Okay then. "This is downstream of the Ember situation, right-- what even happened with her and you, you met her back in Kenabres and that's why she followed you here, right?" Annoyingly, it's really hard to get any kind of past information on Ember with any more content than raving about how she's a Nirvanan saint. You can go find her right now and she'll be preaching about goodness and light and forgiveness in some public square and healing anyone who asks, but ask what she did last week, oh, no, that might be espionage, you might have negative intentions, and if he's ever met her even a guy who'd snitch on his best friend for a beer will clam right up. 

Unfortunately (or fortunately; Irabeth has mixed feelings and she knows Anevia does too, on this point) it's not really a good plan to eject her whole cult from Drezen even despite the blindingly obvious huge security risk it poses. Partly, of course, because if you try you get a mass mutiny instantly, but mostly actually because Anevia spent several weeks following Ember around counting her healing output and then Kalika did a bunch of math with the medical budget and concluded that in expectation it's actually cheaper in crusade budget to let the witch do her thing even if she has a quite high risk of managing to invite a balor to tea so long as you suppose she's reasonably unlikely to do it twice. 

Irabeth does not comment. Irabeth mostly hasn't commented on anything without being specifically prompted since Light's Hope Chapel. 

"...what did happen with her, I remember being somewhat puzzled and then too busy to follow up..." Kalika consults her notes and then squints at them. "Some crusaders apparently took it into their heads to sacrifice her to Iomedae for power? I ignored this because it was lower priority than finding the nabasu that had nearly killed the Prelate approximately an hour earlier and in... the roughly ten seconds it took me to walk past... she had convinced them to repent of their choices. I concluded at the time that this was fully explainable by them being gibbering morons but on reflection you'd think either a person would be stupid enough to be difficult to reach by any kind of logical attempt to convince them otherwise or clever enough not to attempt it in the first place. So either she's so Splendid she should plausibly be modeled as an unusually friendly succubus or she's powerful enough to dispel a Suggestion from her knees on the ground without detectably casting a spell." 

"Ah. Well. Think those might both be true, being honest with you. So that sounds like the rumor's based on a real thing that happened but it's not you that forgave them for trying, it was her. .... S'pose you could let Ember attend all the trials, nobody's going to say she's inadequate to the purpose of seeing the true innocence in people's hearts and they need you too." 

"And when she inevitably asks me to pardon the idiots because they didn't mean it?"

"Again, you can simply not do things just because beggar children--"

"No, she's right, that has the mass martyr problem again." 

"Uuughghhh." 

"Is it actually untenable to just... let her have them? Call it a new branch of the Condemned and if they're at least as useful as the Condemned what exactly does that cost us in added expected risk..."

Oh no, math. 

Oh no, math. 

Oh no, math. 

Kalika surveys the expressions of her PR meeting staff, sighs "politicians, honestly," and starts scribbling and muttering to herself. "...usually on average about a third as useful as a normal soldier but that's sure not zero... related, haven't re-done the budget estimate on the expected cost of Balor Tea Party Emergency Response getting triggered since Seelah hit third circle, I'll do that properly later but quick guess on how much more Ember slack we have now.... we really should be decrementing our wild guess of the likelihood of catastrophic Ember-induced demon incidents for every time we have a demon incident and it turns out she had nothing to do with it, actually," she looks up, "have we even had any that turned out to be her?" 

...

...

"... you know, now that you mention it, we haven't, no. We keep saying it's obviously a matter of time, but..." 

"Right." Kalika taps her pen thoughtfully on the page. "Yeah, I think that's worth it, actually. Camellia, you're on writing her a nice fancy calligraphy invitation to sit in on any trials she cares to, I know you hate acknowedging she matters, suck it up."