A question he can help with.

"Yeah, according to the contingency planning, if the leader died there was only a few people that were supposed to go through his stuff, with the implication it was trapped and only they would know how to look through it safely."

Now, how to answer the Avenger's question and make clear he will be a Chaotic Good Cayden pirate.  (He is pretty sure that means only killing and looting from slavers, he needs to subtly check on how restrictive Andoran is on its pirates.)

"Andoran has lots of pirates, yes?  To help free slaves?  I'm good with a glaive and excellent at grappling, and as you can see I can take at least one good hit and stay on my feet."

He is eyeing the dead inquistor's glaive now.  He already has a silvered glaive, like hers, but hers has a bit nicer of a polish to it with a few less scratches and a bit less wear.  Also, maybe he could figure out how to wield two glaives at once?  He daydreams a moment with the thought of swinging two glaives around.

She smiles at Fernando. "That's helpful, thank you."

He wasn't able to leave unfilled spell slots at second or third circle under the circumstances, but he did save one at first. He starts preparing an Unseen Servant.

...Is that what she sounded like? Is this how Treason and Liberty and Joy and Eric felt when they met her?

He — could easily be the sort of person who really just wants an excuse to steal from anyone and doesn't care whether they're even slavers at all. But the first thing he did was help them fight off the cultists who were trying to kidnap the wizard for daring to disobey Baphomet, and presumably before that he was fighting Asmodeus, he's clearly got some sort of conscience somewhere. He — is probably really confused about some things, he's Chelish, but it's not like she wasn't confused about lots of things when she first got to Andoran.

Lawful types would probably say it's a bad idea to trust someone not to betray you if you know they betrayed the last group they worked for, but betraying the Baphomet cult was right, actually.

The Sarenrites she likes to argue with are going to be so smug that's not actually relevant. 

She's gotten into a lot of frustrating arguments with people who more-or-less agree with everything she's actually doing but think she feels the wrong way about it; if he's going to actually be a worse person because of how he feels, that's an issue, but she's not in charge of what's going on in his heart. 

"—Yes, Andoran's got pirates who free slaves." She's only a pirate on Stardays — that joke is only funny if you know her. "We can put you in touch with some people — they'll want to get to know you before taking you aboard, obviously, but it's always good to have more people fighting slavers and Asmodeans. Uh, and the glaive's yours if you want it for sure, none of us fight with a glaive."

Well now he’s got to learn to fight with two glaives!  Or maybe he could teach someone how to use a glaive and give them him his old glaive?

“I just figure all my skills are for fighting, you know?”

He glances at his fellow defector.

“It’s not like wizardry where you can learn a new spell and start making good money without any fighting…”

A thought occurs to him…

“Does Andoran also have travel passes?”

Yes, being a wizard is in fact great.  He made the right choice all those years ago not to pretend to be stupider like his mother said.  He would kind of like to know how she’s doing.  …actually he’s allowed to think that.  If he ever gets fourth-circle he’ll scry on her.

“I’m curious about Andoran also…”

They’ve been so busy planning in the immediate term, he only learned enough to decide Andoran is better than Cheliax or the Cult and he didn’t really get to asking for any details beyond that.

Headshake headshake. "Travel passes are Asmodean — like, the Asmodeans came up with them, even countries with lots of rules about where people can go mostly don't use them. But Andoran's a free country, you can travel basically anywhere. There's a few rules, but they're things like 'you've got to follow the laws for whatever part of the country you're in' or 'trespassing is a crime' or 'if there's a plague outbreak you need to follow the quarantine', nothing like what they've got in Cheliax."

"People are also allowed to leave the whole country."

"Yeah, that's true too, if you decide you'd rather live in... Absalom, or something... no one's going to stop you from getting on a boat. Uh, what else did you want to know?"