Alley lifted the sleeping human against her side like one would a child. She really was brutally strong.

She walked down the steps and settled the man on the ground against the wall to sleep it off. They shouldn't need to turn him in, she thought, he was the victim of the sword, not the actual bounty. That had been on the demon.

"Cole is a really good rogue," she noted, and then glanced up at him. "Where is your box? The one you woke up with? You need that. Go get it."

And to Merrill she added, "He's one of my people, my Inquisition. He's not possessing anyone or anything," it was the usual disclaimers, "and he's not a demon. He is Compassion, who we helped make more human to protect from blood magic binding."