Thaisha saying "I'll remind you, you are still in his brother's house, so maybe let's watch the way we fucking talk." in response to Bolaire saying "Just because he pretended to tell you the truth while you watched him lie to everybody else doesn't mean he wasn't lying to you, too." only for AZUNE to say "Thjazi's done what he's done and now we have to pick up the pieces and move on together." and for HAL to say "Regardless what you think of my brother, he did leave behind a lot of unanswered questions. So maybe we can start to sift through those pieces and figure some things out." is so narratively perfect to me. Like what do you mean AZUNE AND HAL are talking like that about Thjazi?
The really fun part for Schemers specifically here is that they get to record this before their episodes finished airing, so we get Thaisha valiantly defending Thjazi in respect to Hal, but she doesn't know about the mask and AABRIA doesn't know about the MASK THROWING SHE DOESN'T KNOW. She can't meta about this.
Thaisha DOESN'T KNOW Hal's at the end of his rope too, she doesn't know about him shouting in Azune's face and Murray slinking off into the dark in fear and Bolaire trying hard to coddle Hal about Thjazi right up until he threw that mask and finally started shouting about being mad at Thjazi himself. She didn't hear that Bolaire wanted to run too but he went out there when Azune tried and failed to take it on himself and had no idea how to be a fucking person because Thjazi failed to raise him as a person rather than a weapon. She doesn't understand how much they all tried and how it only made things worse and made them either feel unsafe or like inanimate objects rather than people just being around Hal, like this shit has turned so rancid among the Schemers and now everyone's joining in with a quarter of the pieces of the puzzle, and they all have a pretty good opinion of Thjazi except Vaelus and Julien, so they don't know how actually destructive this focus on whether or not we have to be nice about Thjazi for Hal has been for Bolaire in particular, but also Azune and Murray too.
And Murray's literally saying this because he has celestial typed blood that he turned into paint and sent off to Hal with no explanation and he brought the Stone of Nightsong into the city and they heard about the Tachonis killing their own allies to cover up this ritual ritual in particular but leaving other unrelated allies alive, and then the Tachonis knew about the falcon that he didn't introduce HAL to, that was part of arranging the paint stuff. Like, the Tachonis know more about the Cloak than the viewer does at this point, there's questions as to whether Thjazi was trying to play the Tachonis by faking allegiance, whether they were manipulating the information he received so he'd do what they wanted, or if Thjazi had just tried to get to the ritual the Tachonis were trying to pull off in this scenario first. And maybe none of the above are true but they'd been questioning this for a while now. Even Occtis had wondered why Thjazi brought the Stone into the city and if it was because Thjazi was in some capacity working with the Tachonis by this point.
