I'm not going to lie to you all, I do feel particularly bitter about the whole debacle, and that may come through my post.
However I am forming the opinion that she was set up to die so Drew could get another book or two out of the rift mystery story line. In essence if Salomé had survived last nights instancing, trechery and betrayal, Drew was duty bount to spill the beans on who was behind the rift expedition and why they did it,, a very dramatic climactical ending for a book. Now that shes dead, having died in the last couple of chapters as part of a sudden but inevitable betrayal (such a bad cliche as an author's literary mechanism); the other accomplices / survivors, who are seemingly clueless as to what Salomé knew will have to retrace her steps of inquiry and thats going to take longer than the remainder of premonition. BOOM - We just guessed the plot of the next couple of books, Raan Corsen and Tsu Annabelle Sing retracing the clues and riddles of the formadine rift mystery. If it took Salomé a couple of books to get to the end of the riddle, and she was a woman of exceptional character, that other pair of fugitives will take at least that long so there is volume three and possibly 4 of the saga. Pad that out with some alien stuff actually happening and wow, theres book 5.
So who killed Salomé? Either FD or Drew, not Harry Potter. FD were guilty of terrible network code stopping her wingmen getting to her in time, Drew built her up for a fall and put a target on her head, and Harry Potter? Well he's just a dumb oaf who shoots stuff and did exactly what was expected by all concerned.
.
