[Meenah's opinion on that would be that a ruler is more than their physical presence, but since Jasper doesn't seem too bent on following the topic, she lets it slip with no more than an enigmatic, fanged smile.

At the idea that she's just being helpful, there's an amused hiss from Meenah, and she closes her eyes for a moment as she considers how to word it...and also while she amuses herself privately at how quickly this "gem" is falling to human problems.]

I ain't doin' a shell of a lot for me here, I'll say that, but life an' death is my domain, you could say. Pointless death from people starvin' themshellves for lack 'a knowledge or stupid stubbornness ain't an interestfin way to go for anymoby, and if you gonna die here you might a swell do it with a bang.