"In the perception of many, Mefpralphra has been around forever," Melisson soberly explained. "Most of the elders presently in the war council are replacements to even older elders destroyed by Hanako's Plumeria. That perception will be even stronger with them since they did not, despite the newly attained rank, feel equal to her."
"Reiaz had an ideological rivalry with Mefpralphra," the interpreter continued. "In the end, I suspect he secretly lacked respect on basis of her implication in the conflict. She had been, after all, the one caught whom helped all these events unfold. She had been weak and mostly relied on her manipulative ways to fulfill some alien fantasy for her bastard offsprings."
"Reiaz will be disturbed, but he will be quick to capitalize on it," she predicted. "He will use this to renew his stance that the Doctrine of Annihilation is necessary to put an end to such dangerous vermin as the humanoids are. He will draw support from beyond the war council: Mefpralphra was not a warrior and she had ties beyond that he will exploit."
"Enough time after he will have played up Mefpralphra's demise to gain support from it, he will surely start hunting down specifically the cause for her demise - before the Elders can get used to Mefpralphra's absence. He will have much to gain from it."
