"Hello, Select, it was beginning to seem an oversight that we had yet to meet."

She gives him a three-fingered wave. "I'm Select Stasia — I'm sorry, I don't think anyone's told me your name yet."

"Blai Artigas." It is getting to be kind of too late to change his name. He hopes it doesn't turn out he really needed to do that. If no one has told her his name that probably means that also no one has told her why he is badly catechized. Maybe she won't even ask. Seelah can't even read. "You're actually the first other cleric of Iomedae that I've met, the paladins are so disproportionate."

Stasia's heard a few theories for why that is (the other gods are handling clerics so it's more important for the Goddess to choose paladins? Only Iomedae's followers are Good enough people to be paladins without falling? Wise people follow a god that's less demanding?) but she doesn't feel confident speculating about which ones are true. 

"It's nice to meet you. I wasn't the only one in the city, but I think the demons got Heinrich."

May Hell be denied a wrong prayer. "Heaven keep him. Do you do catechism lessons? I've read the Acts - and the Lastwall disciplinary handbook - and gotten some clarification on a few matters from Ser Tirabade but I haven't had anything systematic."

"I teach people in Kenabres about the Goddess, and I've read a book of sermons. ...But if you've already read the whole Acts I'm not sure how much more I can teach you."

"I'd actually really like to see the book of sermons anyway, if you still have it."

"I lent it to Kyado — lucky thing, really, I'm sure the cultists would have just burnt it. —Kyado's Rathimus's apprentice, the Erastilian."

"I'll ask him, thank you." He wants to know what the training and selection process is like when you're in a normal place like Mendev and not a bizarre place like an Asmodean Worldwound fort but it would invite the reciprocal question. He wants to ask what was surprising, from her background, when she read the Acts, but then she might want to know his own background. He should be operating openly but he is not sure that extends to offering lines of questioning that will lead to confessing that he spent twenty years serving Asmodeus while standing in a pantry. What can he ask... "Would you say the Prelate is a typical example of an Iomedaean inquisitor? I hadn't met any of those before either."

Stasia hesitates for a few moments. She bites her lip.

"—I have only met the inquisitors in Kenabres, and Liotr — Inquisitor Hawkblade — studied in Lastwall and says there are many things they do differently there. Hulrun has been an inquisitor for longer than I've been alive, and he's very good at noticing when something could be a plot by demons or cultists, even when they've gone to some lengths to hide it, but sometimes he thinks something is a plot when it isn't and Liotr has to talk him down. ...And he's better at fighting than almost anyone in the city, that's another way he's not like the others."