Salieri followed four servants carrying large trays of food and sweets from the Grand Salon into a Buffet Room, and stealthily entered after they withdrew.She admired the tiny ring but was disconcerted because the mounted diamond jewel was so small that it was almost imperceptible.The Council claimed that she was being given a "fresh start."They asked about her knowledge of the whereabouts of both her father (presumably dead) and extremist rebel Saw Gerrera, who had raised her as a child.Concerned about his intentions, she cowers back from him over the back of the little boat.She recoils further, clasps her hands in prayer, and makes pitiful pleas for her life.In a close-up, his hands are clenched in a strangle-pose at his waist.The church bells ring again to signal the exact instant when he decides to spare he life of his humble wife.