Halfling slave #958245 "Broom" has just seen a trembling Asmodean girl strip naked and then be set screaming on fire, which challenged his understanding of reality not in the slightest. After that, other things were said which challenged his understanding of reality significantly more. Did the girl just win? That is frankly not where he was expecting this to go.
He wouldn't set somebody on fire, if they were implicated in the possible end of the world. They might explode. Broom thought about trying to do something, but before he was done hesitating, the girl wasn't on fire any more, and then she was still talking disrespectfully to the powerful wizard who had just set her on fire.
That does seem like the sort of person who might destroy the world, either by accident or on purpose?
The conversation afterwards didn't make it seem like Ione Sala was planning to do that right away, but Broom is still feeling somewhat worried. He can imagine somebody carrying the sort of grudge, from being set on fire, where they decide to destroy the world about it. Especially if it's been happening to them regularly. He doesn't like being whipped and healed and whipped again. He hated that one time of his life where it was happening to him a lot. He just didn't have any options for doing anything about that, such as, for example, destroying the world.
It is not entirely clear to Broom that Chelish security quite understands how to avoid making giant messes or how to clean them up, which, he supposes, makes sense of why some god named "Otolmens" would randomly grab Broom in the hallway and tell him to do it.
