"I see."

"You can give me a full report in private later, unless it's too sensitive even for that. Anything else we should urgently know?"

"I saw someone crawling away from the building in that direction. This man confessed to collaboration with the demons and pleads threats to his wife. I think that's all of the highlights."

"I'd be happy to take him and Thall off your hands. Did you identify the individual fleeing?"

The prisoner flinches.

"I have expressed to him my intention to turn him over to the Eagle Watch. I did not identify the individual but he did not appear to be uniformed as a crusader."

"I expect we'll be prepared to hold him in the cells here within the hour." She names a few people and dispatches them to attempt to track down the person fleeing.

"Do we have any word on the approach of the Queen and her forces?"

"As of the last reports we've received, our best guess is that she and the army are a couple days out."

 "We could keep Thall in the cells too?" pipes up one of the crusaders. "Unless you really need him to help with whatever's still roaming the city."

"He's been very useful."

"Do you expect to continue to be able to prevent him from escaping?"

If all he cared about was escaping he could have run when Minagho showed up, but admittedly he would not have done it then and would do it now if he had the chance.

"It has not been very taxing so far." It's a thing to worry about but those just expand to fill the space available and he's got weeks before he needs to be able to play chess.

"It may be more difficult in the future. He's now powerful enough to detect."

He's going to be third circle? He perks up a little.

"Oh? What does he detect as?"

"Chaotic Good," he says, with obvious distaste.

"So... Good?"

"He may detect as Good, but that doesn't mean that he's blameless for his actions, or that he can be trusted to hold to his agreements." A few years ago a group of 'Chaotic Good' adventurers assassinated the ranking cleric at a Worldwound fort.

"It puts him on the side against the demons."

"It is certainly possible that when he broke into the Wardstone chamber to tamper with the Wardstone he was unwittingly assisting with a demon's plan, but it is a capital crime regardless."

"Inquisitor boy, would you be willing to identify the detectable alignments of everyone in this room? It could be valuable information for my encyclopedia."

"No." It's not likely to be harmful, but in principle it could make it easier for a demonic impersonator to know what they needed to fake.

Well, Blai is bound to hand Thall over if Hulrun insists but maybe if Blai just does not exhibit any enthusiasm about this he won't insist for long enough that the Queen can show up and be a singing horse is it illegal to do lèse-majesté in your thoughts.

"If you don't have more urgent priorities, I would appreciate you bringing word to the Defender's Heart — I'd like some of the people currently stationed there to reinforce the Garrison. I can give you a list to give to Nevi."