"What is the 'Moon of the Abyss' to which you refer?"

She completely ignores Nenio's question, raising an eyebrow skeptically at Woljif.

"I see. You claim the betrayal was... unrelated?"

"I don't know, maybe ask whoever betrayed you? For all I know it was related and they just messed it up! The girl's got a second Truthtelling, you won't even have to get creative about getting your answers."

"Brother Woljif, I have never taken you for someone so dim-witted as to be incapable of counting." She gestures at the five people against the walls. "I am already being very generous in humoring you when you admit to having taken the Moon of the Abyss. Do not try my patience."

Wow he sure hopes this doesn't turn into a fight but it is not looking great. He continues to say nothing.

"C'mon, Sister Kerismei, if I knew which one of them sold you out I'd have just said so."

She taps her foot impatiently. "Perhaps you ought to remedy that."

He would be perfectly happy to go figure out which asshole set him up, but somehow he feels like if he just agrees the Chief is going to be like 'Woljif, when I agreed to accompany you on this errand I did not agree to an indeterminate number of additional errands' or something like that.

He looks back at the party. "The shop we were hitting isn't that far. About as close as the Defender's Heart, but southwest instead of south so we can probably avoid the big hole. There's a" really annoying "fancy magic construct guarding it, it might've seen something."

"...If I'm going to let you leave on an errand, I will need you to submit to the Truthtelling first."

"Yeah, yeah, of course."

That's not that far out of their way but he will update down on how straightforward Woljif-ideas are in case he has any more in the future.

"Very well. In that case, you will testify under the Abadar's Truthtelling to the following..."

She has a proposed wording, mostly covering various rephrasings of 'he did not betray them to any agent of Kenabres's various law enforcement agencies, did not assist the person who did in doing so, and does not know or suspect which person actually did it,' with a half-hearted attempt to also include 'he does not intend to skip town on them after leaving this room.' She isn't including anything about the Moon of the Abyss; he's obviously hiding something, but she can figure out what specifically he's hiding later.

"To hear them talk, you'd think they were the agents of the law and Hulrun's men the lawless thugs."

She feels like she should be defending the Prelate from the Count's blasphemy but, on the other hand, she has met the man.

Woljif actually wants to rephrase this one sentence, is that alright? Technically speaking he did show these guys the hideout, after all, even though he made sure they weren't going to go snitching.

It's awfully suspicious that he's trying to mess with the wording, but she can't deny that the original wording would have been a problem. She'll rephrase it in a completely different way to the one he proposed.

Yep, that one's also fine.

He reads through the whole thing under the Truthtelling. He genuinely didn't sell them out to Irabeth, or anyone else, and it's not hard to intend not to skip town on them for long enough to make the spell happy.

yaaaaay nobody is killing anyone yet

"I suppose that will have to be sufficient. We would of course be happy to host your non-combatants here while you determine who to spend the remaining Truthtelling on."

"We're not leaving Dyra with a bunch of criminals!"

She sighs. "The girl will be unharmed. We are professionals, not common thugs. But I suppose if Brother Woljif has an alternative proposal to ensure his integrity I would be willing to consider it."

"I had intended to buy Mr. Jefto one casting. I have not even asked the Fiducia's price for her second and did not, for instance, ask her not to auction it off to someone else."

 "I sold you the first one for five crowns, I could sell the other one for the same..."

Snort. "Five crowns? And they call us thieves."

 oh no did she do something wrong probably she isn't supposed to learn about Abadaranism from criminals??

Sister Kerismei sizes up Blai's group again. "I suppose, now that brother Woljif has cleared his name, I would be willing to purchase the second, if you can identify an appropriate suspect." She looks back at the group of people lined up against the wall, inspecting her dagger. "Or, I suppose, if one of you is willing to confess now, perhaps I would be willing to be... merciful."

No takers? What a surprise. "If we do not learn anything at the shop, where does that leave us?"

"You are an outsider; you owe us nothing. It is Brother Woljif who still needs to prove his dedication to the Family."