"Oh, my mistake. If you found that same stranger in the same state as this man, then you would pardon his transgressions against your goddess."

"Cultists and murderers should both hang, and an awful lot of thieves should too. It's not that complicated."

Tail-twitch.

"I haven't the authority to pardon anything. The question is one of whether someone can be trusted by their comrades in the field, which depends on the field and the comrades as well as the someone."

Nothing he's tempted to say here would actually be helpful to anyone but he's making a little bit of a face.

"Please, I'll do whatever you say—"

"We are not the comrades for you and I do not know if any suitable exist."

He makes a little noise.

"We should — keep moving."

"You're right."

What's next in here.

More stunned demons! Room full of dead Deskarans, with a Baphomite symbol painted in blood on the floor! Second-story room with a hole in the wall, from which they can see a badly injured person crawling away from the Garrison!

Stunned demons get a coup de grace. Is the injured person identifiable at all? ...any sign of why they haven't run into the other team if they're now all the way to the second floor?

The injured person is facing away from the building, but he's not wearing anything recognizable as a Mendevian crusader's uniform.

The building is pretty big, it's not necessarily concerning that they haven't run into the other team. It's a little weird that they haven't heard anything from that team's familiar, but it or its wizard might be dead.

...Nothing obvious to be done about the crawling guy through a window either way if he's well enough to crawl.

They keep going.

There are more stunned demons! Being stunned, they are not much of an impediment to Blai's party.

And eventually, they meet back up with the other group. 

They have about half as many people as they had when they launched the attack. Irabeth is still with them, though her face has a bit of a greyish tint to it; so is Hulrun. All of them are clearly worn out from the fighting.

She breaks into a smile when she sees Blai and his party. "Select! I take it your mission was a success?"

"- yes. Minagho showed, Ser Vhane showed, and she absconded with him displaying willingness; a Protection from Evil didn't loose him; but I don't know how conclusive that is. Casualties -" He definitely learned the relevant names. "I have one scale left."

Minagho showed, and that many of them survived?

He's already cycling through alignment detection and Detect Magic. "I see no sign that she's enchanted them, and none of them detect as Chaotic Evil, save for the prisoner." The Count is Evil, as expected, but not Chaotic; his aura isn't from Minagho's brand.

"I think it must have been a miracle. Select Blai fixed the Wardstone, and then Minagho appeared, and other powerful demons with her, and I thought we were going to die. But instead, there was a burst of light from the Wardstone, and I felt a holy presence, and then I was faster and stronger and all their attacks hardly touched me at all, and so was everyone else. I think the Goddess saw that we just needed to win one more fight and everyone would be safe, and gave us the strength to do it."

"...it could have been something else but I don't know how sensitively to treat the details of my speculations."

...She's really curious about that but it would be inappropriate to ask.

"Oh, did you have the opportunity to observe additional details of the unusual magical phenomena?"

"Nenio, how good are you at inferring things that you are not directly told?"

"It depends on the topic! I am quite good at solving puzzles and understanding partial spell structures. My capabilities at making inferences about other people are somewhat more limited."