Maybe if we lock them up you can talk to them when they wake up.

"I'll do that." 

It's not far to the Tower of Estrod, and they're accosted along the way only by a single babau, which Lann and Anevia take out with arrows and Seelah with her sword as soon as it pops out from around the corner. The cultists are gathered in the courtyard of a ruined building, apparently having some kind of strategic disagreement. There are around a dozen.

That's kind of a lot. Ember, you start on the left and I'll get any you miss?

Ember can do that. Everyone else watches warily to handle the response from the cultists once they start all falling asleep.

I'm going to need another break after this, Bella says, once they're all knocked out.

"Not a problem. We can head straight back now - Nenio, what are you doing?"

Disassembling an elaborate exhibition clockwork of some kind - this place was a museum before it was a war zone, apparently -

Uh, I don't think that's yours to take apart.

"So many great treasures of pre-destruction Kenabres were lost to history due to the invasion of Deskari's forces," Nenio says, in the tone of someone taking notes for her encyclopedia. Seelah takes her arm and tugs her along with them back towards the Defender's Heart. 

" - which is where you can interview the cultists, in the prison."

"Interview the cultists? Ah, for the encyclopedia."

"...do you not remember our conversation about this? It was five minutes ago."

Nenio's expression falters slightly. "In the spirit of inquiry I will go on!"

She is really not right in the head but hopefully it's in a way that generally harms only herself! Back to Defender's Heart.

Where Seelah tries, and fails, to find anyone qualified to evaluate what's wrong with Nenio. 

"If a channel doesn't fix it I am afraid she's out of luck until at least when the relief army arrives."

"Goddess guide them."

"Indeed."

Nenio has sprawled on the floor and is drawing incomprehensible diagrams.

Bella does glance at them to see if they're spells - she can look, just not touch -

Yep! This one looks like it'll make it look like there are a half dozen illusory Nenios.

...she's trying to improve it.

...like, in a stupid crazy way, or in a normal way where she's scrolling something that maybe came to her in a dream to try once and give up on if it doesn't pan out.

Stupid! Crazy! That right there is discarded diagrams of eight attempted alterations!

Eight! What the fuck!

Bella learned to siphon mana in high school and never improved on it in the slightest and she is going to bap Nenio on the head and take ALL of hers before she blows up the whole building!

- Nenio blinks up at her, not even upset. "- clever! How did you do that?"