God, I hate the religious nuts in this. And, even more annoying, how there were some who truly were so evil and claimed religious justification in real life.
Cordula has experienced the torture that Sybil has done for days including being actually branded.
The other girls are still so innocently naive even though Ella is doing all of this to spare them from that torture.
I was already with this in mind, now there's no coming back. The other girls started seeing Ella as someone to be feared. This may lead to trouble, and not a shred of sympathy when someone bad happens to her.
What the hell is up with the surveyor? In a cage and bound? Those religious nuts must have also dosed her up on something because she doesn't seem right.