Linah does her best to put on a brave face as she's swarmed by the soldiers and servants. She can not afford to falter now. She asks everyone to come with her to the chapel where she performs a ritual and asks the Dawnflower to look over the monastary and all that dwell within as they lay their lives in her mercy. After the ceremony Linah talks to one and all in attendence, trying to comfort and lift their spirits.
One of your teachers from the monastery told you that there is nothing like an impending battle to make people pious. You lead the group in several hymns from The Birth of Life and Truth. You can't help noticing that several faces in the crowd look at you with barely concealed reverance.
Afterwards as you are talking to everyone individually, Oxvard approaches you. Despite ministrations from you and Father Zantus the cleric still shows the marks of his captivity, a broken nose that is only now starting to properly heal and other scars.
He speaks common in a thick Chelaxan accent which you find a little difficult to understand but the rambling madness that formerly marked his speech seems to have withdrawn.
I wanted to thank you. For saving me. I wasn't right in the head before. What the gnolls did. To me. To my friends.
They broke me I guess.
When it was happening, once they'd killed my friends, when they used the fire. I cried out to Abadar to help me. And when he didn't. I cursed Him. My own God. I curesed Him.
I didn't see it. You saved me. You saved Felliped as well. Maybe he did help.
I've been afraid to pray. What if he doesn't answer? What if I am lost to him?
Linah do you think he will forgive me?