There's obviously a time between the last two panels, during which Violetta takes and closes the lantern. I think it's likely that in that time, Violetta makes very sure that her target really was Madwa and is really, truly, permanently dead. That would be a bit too gory to show.
So Violetta has just gotten enough XP to level up again! :-) She's also accomplished something truly notable in Smoke Knight society. That should be good for a couple of scoops of self-esteem.
One of Lucrezia's areas of expertise is mind transfers. She may be able to rebuild Madwa from backups, even if Violetta did a quite thorough job on the original. I trust Violetta not to be overconfident, here.
That in no way detracts from Violetta having fooled Madwa into monologuing for an audience, taken her down, and recovered the lantern (and possibly a lot of other interesting things Madwa had on her person). Nor from out-sneaking Rakethorn.
There aren't mental duplicates of anyone else that I can think of, but she does have the technology. Possibly there's a technical reason it's limited to just her, possibly she just wouldn't want to share that capability, but it seems like if she cared she could have backups of her critical agents. OTOH, it's easy to argue that she doesn't value anyone else that highly.
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So Violetta has just gotten enough XP to level up again! :-) She's also accomplished something truly notable in Smoke Knight society. That should be good for a couple of scoops of self-esteem.
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That in no way detracts from Violetta having fooled Madwa into monologuing for an audience, taken her down, and recovered the lantern (and possibly a lot of other interesting things Madwa had on her person). Nor from out-sneaking Rakethorn.
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