He had been hoping for Axis.

It wasn't, really, what he was supposed to hope for, so most of the time he hadn't let himself hope for anything at all. Anyone working in the courts was expected to aspire to Heaven, whether or not they actually had any chance of making it. So he told people that's what he was hoping for, if they asked, and he made sure to allocate some of his wages to orphanages, and he didn't think too hard about what it would actually be like in Heaven. Probably it would be fine. Iomedae is the goddess of defeating evil, and that's what he spends most of his time on, and-- if he ends up sorted there, it means he belongs there.

He doesn't remember most of his trial. That's not, in itself, unusual. For most petitioners it's a blur and he has no reason to believe he'd be an exception.

He waits in line for processing. The line is on fire. 

Occasionally, he reaches a point in the line where the ground isn't on fire, and he can concentrate well enough to remember a fragment of his trial. That's not normal, but no matter how hard he pushes, he can never remember more than just that fragment.