The cultist spends the whole walk back to the tavern sobbing, but he doesn't actually attempt to stop them or alert anyone else in the area to their presence. They don't encounter anyone else on the journey.

Blai will take hold of his elbow for the walk into the tavern, mostly for the visual, and wait for Irabeth's attention.

Irabeth is doing paperwork and can speak to him immediately.

"Select! Report? —Starting with the prisoner."

"Surrendered Baphomet cultist, I've destroyed his symbol, he has not shown evidence of being armed but I did not search him thoroughly in the street."

Irabeth dispatches a pair of crusaders who are definitely not going to assault him to search his person for weapons, then nods for Blai to continue his report.

He gives the rest of the day in chronological order including a request for a more detailed set of guidelines about looters.

Sigh. "I don't like it, but if they're not attacking anyone they're a lower priority than the demons. —They can lie about that, obviously, but I'd like to hope the fact that they didn't attack you is a good sign. If you encounter more of them in the future, you are authorized to assure them that as a matter of policy I am not specifically inquiring as to whether people who present themselves to volunteer were previously looting the city except insofar as they present me with stolen goods. If you encounter looters while returning to the Defender's Heart, you can use your discretion as to whether attempting to escort them back would pose a threat to the safety of your team."

"Yes Ser."

If he doesn't have anything else to report, Irabeth can issue him dinner tokens. (It's not really early enough for dinner, but this way he won't need to find her again later.)

And the prisoner goes where?

Prisoner to the basement cell, which is currently being supervised by (among others) a Sarenrite on the theory that surely a cleric of a literal goddess of redemption can manage not to assault the prisoners. He should escort the other prisoner to the private room upstairs (Irabeth intends to meet him there; if gathering her staff takes longer than expected, he should wait for her to return rather than leaving the prisoner there alone). If the other prisoner asks, he is authorized to tell him that he isn't being imminently led to his execution and will be permitted additional spiritual counseling if desired, but not authorized to make other assurances about the prisoner's fate.

"Understood. The Sarenrite expects this to be a licit exchange?"

"I previously informed her that a situation like this might arise. —Passphrase so she knows this isn't a convoluted escape plan is 'Fourth Act.'"

"Thank you."

He will bring the new prisoner down the stairs and explain him to the Sarenrite.

...The prisoner who was already there is not quite crying, but he is screaming with his face that this is taking an enormous amount of effort.

 "Are you alright?" asks the Sarenrite.

"—they're going to kill me, and then I'll die and go to the Abyss and everyone there is going to hate me for trying to betray them—"

 The Sarenrite glances nervously at Blai. "I don't know if they're going to kill you, but you aren't dead yet, and that means you don't have to go to the Abyss. There is a home in Nirvana for evildoers who realized what they were doing was wrong and tried to put it right, and Sarenrae's angels rejoice every time a new soul arrives there."

Instead of responding to that he bursts into tears.

"I'm to take that one upstairs and leave this one here," Blai tells the Sarenrite, "Fourth Act."

  The new prisoner glares at the Sarenrite. "No one actually believes that crap, you know."

 "I'm sure Baphomites don't." She unlocks the cell and opens the door for Blai.

Are either of the prisoners going to make this complicated for him?

The crying one keeps flinching away from him, but isn't actively resisting. The new arrival cooperatively goes into the cell, sweeping his eyes around the room.

Blai gets the cell closed up again properly. "Thank you very much for what you're doing here," he tells the Sarenrite, and he escorts the crying prisoner up to await Irabeth.

Irabeth, Anevia, and two members of the Eagle Watch that Blai hasn't met are waiting for him.

"Thank you, Select. We'll take it from here."

He nods and steps out. Back down to kill the afternoon; they're too low on spells for it to be a great idea to go straight back out.

Is that a no on going to find Dyra?

Have you decided what you want to say about it? I can't act on much of the information.

I dunno, mostly I don't want my friends to get arrested? Kinda seems like that would undermine the whole 'not being the one that sold them out' thing.