Then he will be immediately shown to Inquisitor Castelloni's office, where Inquisitor Castelloni will glower at him!

(Not personally. Just on general principles. He glowers at most people. By this point Lastwall has sent back their 'the note is legitimate and real and you should listen to it' message and Ettore has listened to it, but this does not actually make him like the extremely overclassified person who just jumped into his overworked disaster and is not making it better.)

Marit's own expression is completely unreadable.

"I had an update and a question. The update is that there is a Dimensional Lock on the dungeons, and will be for the next month or so." It's an eighth circle spell and would have to be cast Extended for that result; he doesn't explain himself, because the Iomedaen inquisition doesn't actually need to know. "There is currently a babau there, my prisoner. We are trying to learn more about the ritual by which our enemies are creating more powerful demons. I intend to conduct an interrogation. I also want to test if the enhanced demons possess the same vulnerabilities - to good and cold iron, in a babau's case - as unenhanced demons. The testing wouldn't be seriously injurious, I will use Delay Pain, I will arrange magical healing, but I wanted to check whether Iomedae's Law, or any other relevant law I am unaware of, prohibits deliberately injuring prisoners against their interests regardless."

The Iomedaean Inquisition doesn't need to know, but Inquisitor Castelloni is still obviously not going to trust that the lock will keep existing just because this person says it.

"I will need to know the precise dimensions of the Dimensional Lock before I make use of it," he says while he thinks.

And then he thinks. The value of the information is obviously significant, but more importantly...

... He'll pull out his pocket copy of the Law of Iomedae and check it just to be sure.

(While keeping one eye on the mysterious deadly person, of course..)

"That is not explicitly prohibited," he will grudgingly say. "Assuming it is not done torturously."

"It's centered on a pillar in the center of the second wing and encompasses all of the cells in that room, and the hallway visible from there." So the prisoners don't have line of effect to anywhere that isn't under the Dimension Lock, which would let them summon things.

"I will not cause pain, and if it's possible will conduct the test while the prisoner is not conscious so as to avoid otherwise causing distress. Thank you. I had no other questions."

Ettore will glower, nod in a vague mixture of thank-you, I-understand and you're-welcome, and then keep glowering until Marit leaves.

Well, inquisitors are not empowered through their great splendour.

Marit will return to the dungeons. He doesn't plan to conduct any experiments now, he should just check in before he trains soldiers all day.

Ember is sitting outside the bars of the babau's cell. 

"It must be frightening, not to know what's going to happen next," she's saying. "I'd tell you, but I don't know why you're in here, either."

The guard makes an apologetic face at him. He makes a gesture that will hopefully be interpreted as 'no, that's fine'. 

"We want to learn more about the ritual that makes enhanced demons," he says, trying to say it as much to the demon as Ember. He's not even sure the demon speaks Taldane.

"Oh, that makes sense!" she says, cheered. She turns back to the demon. "I think the Knight Commander doesn't want anyone else to be hurt the way that you were hurt. That doesn't make what happened to you any better, though."

"Ember, does it understand Taldane?"

"Oh, a lot of demons only understand the words you say to them in your mind. It's easier for me if I say the words out loud, though, too."

"Right, okay. ...we want to know where the ritual that enhanced the demon was conducted, and who did it, so we can stop them from doing it to more demons. We also want to know what effects the ritual had. Korva said that if the demon helped us with that we could send him back to the Abyss with magic, instead of killing him, but I don't really expect him to believe us about that."

"That would be good. Would you like to go home, Eviscerator? I don't know if you'll believe me, either, but Korva's always kept her promises to demons, so I don't think she would say it if she didn't mean it. The last demon she asked about the ritual is just fine. She was when she went back to the Abyss, anyway, I guess I don't know where she is now."

- Marit's going to ask one of his spies to come on in here and keep an eye out in case Ember escalates from this to idiocy, but this is - Good, actually, not his kind but a very important kind, and he doesn't want to hassle her about it just because it's almost definitely not going to work and what's going to work is a Geas for obedience and then an interrogation. 

"I will return later," he says to Ember, "but if, uh, Eviscerator decides to tell you anything about the ritual and you think he's telling the truth you can get me or tell Korva, all right?"

"Okay! I'll let you know."

Or his spy will. "Thank you!"

They've changed the focus of training the soldiers now that the plan is to station them in large groups at Mansions along the border. They need to be better at working in larger-than-scouting-sized groups. There's a lot to do. 

Korva has to do logistics. She doesn't like logistics. It involves a bunch of talking to people. At least it isn't moral decision-making, though, or at least not the kind where you have to suddenly answer questions like "do I have an objection to cutting up prisoners". She just has to check in on Lann (clothing numbers, how are you, how are the neathers, how is being mostly responsible for everyone around you treating you, yeah it's kind of awful but you're doing great), check in with Harmattan (legal code, awkwardly not talking about any planned attempted coups), check in with Dorgelinda (supply numbers, still not doing any stealing, right? right?), check in with Regill (unfortunately not in fact worth raising any soldiers with current funds, thank you for doing the calculations because I'm not sure I would trust them from anyone else, I suppose that "boots" is not a particularly surprising answer to what should be at the top of our new spending priority list but it's not actually the specific one I would have thought of), check in with Setsuna (have some mansion locations yet? cool. have a roster for who's in what mansion yet? no, it doesn't need to be finalized yet, just checking in about it), NOT check in with Sosiel about anything clericy because she's avoiding Sosiel today, check in with her mail which STILL doesn't have anything from Galfrey about anything -

These people know that she was expelled from school for being a disorganized wreck who couldn't do her homework, right? No, of course not, she's never spoken to anyone here about it except for Marit and, very obliquely, Regill.

She still feels like they should magically intuit it. But they don't, and the mobilization effort is making progress anyway.

And around late afternoon, Ember will wander out to where Marit is training soldiers and politely wait for him to get to a stopping point. She's wearing boots, but no coat; she gave hers away to someone who didn't have one.

"Ember. Did you and Eviscerator have a good conversation?"

"Mhm! He says he'll help you learn about the ritual if he gets to go home after."

" - well, great! Do you think he'll still be willing to help us with that if we use magic so he can't lie to us?"

"Mhm! He doesn't like it here at all. - oh, do you know how much you need to know to scry the ritualist? I don't scry things, so I'm not sure, but I thought you'd want to have somebody scry him. Eviscerator says that people call him Mu-ta-sa-fen, but I don't know whether that's enough."

"That's enough to try but probably not enough to succeed." And probably a trap, just like scrying Alfirin is a trap. "Did he say where this Mutasafen is?"

"He said that the ritual was done in the Abyss, so probably Mutasafen is there."

Marit is mostly assuming that the demon is lying its slimy face off but they'll know soon enough. "Well, that'd be inconvenient but not surprising. - the other thing I wanted to learn about the ritual was whether Eviscerator has the same weaknesses as most demons, or different ones. We're losing a lot of soldiers to ritual-altered demons, and we wouldn't if we knew more about how to fight them."