Nod.

"Goddess watch over your work."

And he goes back to get Seelah's agreement to assist in managing his obligations regarding Thall and give everybody their spell loadouts.

Seelah is not thrilled with this arrangement, but she guesses it's better than killing Thall...

On the other end of the table, Hulrun and one of his inquisitors are looming over the Sarenrite who was guarding the cell in the basement.

Whaaaaat the fuuuuuuck Blai will go see if he can improve that situation by standing near it.

"...understand correctly, you acknowledge that you have been made aware of illicit activities by cultists, and yet you have not reported their crimes to appropriate authorities."

 "I'm a cleric of Sarenrae, I can't go repeating what they told me. ...Whether they told me about crimes or whether they didn't." She is trying very hard to look confident but not really succeeding.

  The other inquisitor folds his arms. "You heard the Prelate. Tell us what crimes they admitted to, that's an order."

"- inquisitor! I believe that to be an illegal order!" says Blai at once, loudly enough that if the Sarenrite started to say anything it should be cut off and drowned out.

A... what? She doesn't think he was saying to do anything that's against the law?

The inquisitor turns to look at him, his face shifting from anger to confusion as he notices who was talking. "What the Abyss are you talking about, Select?"

"She just told you that she cannot do as you wish because she is a cleric of Sarenrae and you do not have the authority to override Sarenrae in this matter." He is... literally shaking... but he's got his face under control and probably looks like he's shaking with anger. "It is a formally understood characteristic of the clerics of allied gods and of Iomedae as well that people may come to them for confidential counsel. My source on this is the Lastwall handbook and if you have contrary Mendevian law I will certainly look at it but I presently believe that to be an illegal order and it to be her responsibility to disobey."

"I don't know what they do in Lastwall, but under Mendevian law it's illegal to cover up a crime."

(The Prelate is assessing the scene, but it's not externally obvious what he's thinking.)

"She is not obscuring evidence that would still exist if she had not offered her services as a confidential confessor. Her service in that capacity, which may well save souls, is only licitly advertised if she keeps those confidences, and the only way to Lawfully save those souls is to sincerely uphold that commitment. Attempting to undermine it is destructive, Lawless, and I say again her responsibility to disobey, in which responsibility anyone invested in the cooperation between faiths, the fate of those souls, or the possibility that her counsel might convince a criminal to admissibly volunteer information ought to support her without reservation."

He is not at all convinced that the Select understands the severity of the situation. There are Iomedaeans who want to stop the hordes of the Abyss from overtaking Golarion, and Iomedaeans who would rather all Mendev burn than risk the possibility of violating some regulation written by men who've never even set foot in Mendev, and the Select has made it very clear that he's the latter. It is not as if no cultist has ever ensnared a Sarenrite in their schemes by pretending to be interested in redeeming themself.

But he's had very nearly this exact conversation with Liotr, save that the Select is getting more emotional about it, and for all Liotr's foreign softness he's not actually a fool. 

He holds up a hand to his inquisitor.

"Leave her be, unless you discover evidence that she has been aiding demonic plots beyond the amount inherent to not reporting them. I will speak with Commander Tirabade personally about the security concerns posed by having her alone with servants of the Abyss."

"Thank you, Prelate."

He and his inquisitor depart the table to await Irabeth's return to her corner.

"Thank you, Select."

"No thanks are necessary." He will stop trembling any second now. There he goes. "Thank you very much for everything you've done to help."

She nods. (There's more she'd like to say, but after that whole conversation, it would be really embarrassing if she said something that he used to make guesses about the prisoners.)

He goes back to his own party's table again. Puts a hand on the sermon book but does not immediately dive back into it.

It's so weird how not snitching to the lawmen counts as Lawful when it's Lawful people doing it.

Apparently Iomedae's own people insist on constantly finding each other lacking.

This irrelevant conversation is distracting her subject from his interview!

"...What's an illegal order?"