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Might as fucking well do that, go all the way up and yap-no-justu at the two in charge of the Abbey. Hey, she Kos'ke into Planetary Governor position.

Everyone gets inside the walls as the sun sets and the wall turrets are repaired. Callidia gets the Sisters to stay at the precinct and rest at the vacant bunks of the Arbites, Proctor Dietz can complain when he arrives back if he wants.
Callidia pulls Haxta aside to have a chat and tells her she knows she's not telling everything. Haxta agrees and says it's because she also wasn't told everything. Take it up to the Canoness and the Palatine.

Haxta says that the Lord Sector used to listen to the Canoness, he doesn't anymore for whatever reason, and that the Lord Sector is a cunning monster. Well then, a few things that might buy favour for Callidia:
>she's the reason the sisters even knew the guard was coming and is a chance to get help against this siege
>she girlplotted and restored the tithe by having the ashleen harvest a fuckton of ghostfire, and had their main opp cleaved in two, freeing them to secure even the PG post
>that means the guard doesnt have to go after the tithe and is free to help the abbey
>restoring the tithe should please the Lord Sector, as per some of the Proctor-Laureate's words

The crackolytes are supposed to fuck off from Iocanthos before the guard arrives, but fuck that, might as well send a preliminary report that their original mission is done and go fuck around the Abbey. Callidia's self interest is gaining clout with the Abbey to be officially promoted from Novitiate and restore a modicum of relationship between the Sororitas and =][=, even if its only with her Lord Inquisitor.
Hopefully figuring out this issue and saving the Abbey also adds to her and the crackolyte's resume to get promoted within the Inquisition too.

In any way, the crackolytes aren't leaving this dirtball yet.