“I was very clear that I did NOT want a bloodbath.” 

So few deaths that were not cultists. Not a single slain civilian and this is the thanks we get?

“I don’t remember that,” the girl addresses her sister. “And anyway, you sent me. You want investigations or whatever, you send a spy. You want them all dead, you send me. I’m really not the spying sort of lunatic?” 

“Did they break the law at least?”

What, are we barristers, now? They made sacrifice of humanoids to the godkilling deep, so our target was accurate. If she regrets how she aimed, the responsibility is her own.

“Well, they were sacrificing and torturing- probably- this half elven slave girl, so, there’s that?”

“Damaging one’s own property is hardly illegal.” The Uncrowned Queen sighs. “You got them all? No one saw you?” 

We'd need to go back with tracking magic to be sure. But we were most efficacious, I'd say.

“Nope, no one at all,” the girl lies as convincingly as she can, and then repeats what the voice said because that seems like a much more convincing lie. 

“What happened to the slave?” 

Tell her the slave is unlikely to be coming back into the city anytime soon, and you want some money to encourage her not to report anything to the law.

The girl very carefully repeats the voice’s words. 

“She saw your face? Does she know who you are?” 

"She didn't say she recognized me, and I don't think she wants any trouble. But that's why I think we should pay her."

Again, the girl very carefully repeats the voice’s words. 

“It would be safer to have her killed,” Princess Nerissa muses aloud. 

The girl keeps her mouth shut and gnaws her lip worriedly. 

“Still, I suppose there has been enough bloodshed today. How much do you need? You’re very sure she will go away without issue?” 

Twenty gold should be fine. We're confident.

“Twenty gold. I’m certain.” 

“Oh. That’s nothing.” Nerissa counts out twenty shiny golden coins. “You DO have to be certain. It could be a disaster if she tells.” 

She's a slave. Cheap to buy off.

“Well, if you’re certain. I don’t need more death on my conscience tonight.” 

"Yes. Do you want us to check for more cultists with tracking magic?"

“Yes, that would be good I think. Tell me how… extensive it is before you cause another bloodbath though. I’ll send in the arcanist to replenish your scrolls and get you some tracking magic.”