The suspicions of the man of split descent were wise to exist, human lands were rife with politics, the worst of which embroiled several of their kingdoms in a spanning conflict all along the southern border of their territories. Were it not for the fact man was so busy fighting himself in this manner, it would be reasonable to assume he would be expanding in some other direction and drawing the ire of those inhabitants instead. Yet never once would he manage this without internalized conflict all its own along the way. Gorosk knew, without doubt the more he thought about it, there was some likelihood they had been conscripted into something similar to deal with the affairs in this region - that their imprisonment was an excuse to those ends. This all was coming together quite clearly until something stood out to him.

The god, presumably Erithar based upon the rhetoric used by both justice and priest, saw them as innocent of crimes. Erithar was a good of good and law, that he would honor the laws broken of a land, even if righteousness and holiness were not tenants of it. So long as no evil was done, that seemed reasonable. Not only did the justice and priest seem to believe this, their laws seemed to follow this as well. They, all of them in this stone tomb, had broken the law, but not terribly enough to offend a god of good. It was not to say their charges were good acts, however, or that they honored the law.

This, truly, made matters worse more than it made them better, as not only now was their purity judged, so too now was their honor. Were they just all miscreants it could just be ignore and one would expect as much. But for someone who came from a temple of discipline and instruction? What about a man who clearly practiced the faith and just, in a single breath before Gorosk could crack his parched lips with reply, pledge their unyielding success? At least if they were criminals some of them would be punished and let go, others likely executed, but now they were to serve the temple to absolve themselves of the crimes. It was enough to make the orc grit his jaw, as either these two men believed what they had done was as right as it could be, as just and as fair as it came, or they had practiced this act - and the younger of the two in his crude robes certainly had not the seeming face to feign anything of that variety.

Yet while Gorosk struggled with the realization of how this was likely a worse outcome than just being say, publicly beaten and humiliated, Renault would find the justice's attention upon him. There he would see the man's skepticism fade with nothing more than the restrained pleasantry of a huff and light smile. For the time being he had been distracted from wordlessly scolding de Bray just beside the paladin, instead giving his approval to this reaction. Whether the justice believed it or not, that was debatable, but it was clear he was contented with the knowledge that at least one of the two men was not going to prove an issue. He turned away, following down the hallway to inspect the final two remaining figures and see if they dared issue rebuttal, leaving the priest to simply hold and read the scroll to himself.

[@BangoSkank][@Lord Wyron]