That’s where my confusion is coming from: Morton has stated three times after the combat that we can’t leave Arya here, and Aanbo has suggested that he, and any others who can’t move onwards retreat to the first floor and wait for us.
So in Myrtha’s mind it is obvious that we aren’t leaving without her body, but that we must deal with the head priestess first.
What I don’t see in Morton’s word is any suggestion that he intends to leave the temple with Arya’s body, on his own, and immediately. That, in Myrtha’s mind, is the thinking of a person in shock: and the gods know that Morton has seen enough this day to be in shock. But to her martially-minded thinking he can’t be allowed jeopardise the party’s sliver of a chance of stepping out of Orlane alive later on today.
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