Cullen's retrieved his own sword; he looks up when Alistair returns, and nods approval.

Quietly: "Charter's been monitoring our operations from an outbuilding since we arrived. We should go there first."

And if the circumstances warrant Cullen needing a shield, he can get a standard issue shield there.

(It doesn't, Josephine pointed out, match the tunic, and should thus be avoided except in direst emergency. Whether this is a dire emergency... well. Charter will know better than Cullen.)