"Name rank division," snaps Blai.

Ah fuck, the last group of crusaders he ran into didn't bother to ask him that.

"A- Aspex, Aspex Roig, Chosen, from the third division!" 

"Wrong," says Blai. Chosen is not a rank and the third division is a domestic deployment. Mace: drawn.

Is it too late to sprint in the other direction? This guy feels like it might be sprinting-in-the-other-direction time.

Well, he can turn it into a chase scene!

Ah, fuck, he's out of Grease or this would be easy.

Lann is faster than this guy and has a bow. He didn't totally follow what was going on between him and Select Artigas, but he has figured out that they're fighting now.

How about another Blinding Ray to make it harder for him to see where he's going?

Okay, clearly this is also not working.

"Wait! I surrender!"

"Remove the symbol by the chain and throw it away."

He does this!

...Then he bursts into tears!

"Your vision will return shortly," Nenio says in a reassuring tone.

That is not helpful!!!

Is he armed at all? Blai investigates this while stomping the symbol till it's broken.

Not visibly!

Symbol: busted. "If you have a concealed knife or anything like that, tell us now and then slowly extract and drop it.'

Headshake headshake headshake.

(He used to have a spear, but he lost it in the same fight where he picked up his injuries.)

"If you reveal later that you have a dagger or a scroll unexpectedly we are going to have a problem," says Blai. "You can get up now and come with us."

They didn't let him have any of the scrolls because he doesn't know how to read. He's not about to say that, though.

He gets up.

"Now will you participate in my survey?" asks Nenio hopefully.

"...if I don't are you going to kill me?"

"Of course not!"

"That was really impressive! How did you know he was lying?"

"Chosen is not a military rank and the third division is deployed domestically."

Huh, okay, maybe that's the sort of thing everyone on the surface knows — no, the cultist didn't. Maybe it's the sort of thing all the crusaders know.