That silhouette looks, to me, like it's of Saha On killing Asha -- that fits the context of the rest of the intro, and matches what's currently happening in the plot. The person on the left is wearing Asha's furs on one arm, and the person on the right has Sasa On's feathers on their shoulders.
My guess is that Sasa On is an idealist who uses his power to take on doomed causes. Hence his attempt to have Asha -- a powerful, important and popular magician who, probably, killed relatively unimportant people nobody cared about -- brought to justice even though it would deprive the planet of one of their best magicians; and hence his attempts to pass a Stolen Goods Law, even though, probably, most of the people doing the stealing are other powerful magicians. Both these things failed because other magicians voted for their selfish self-interest -- protecting their own people, keeping their own stolen goods -- rather than for his idealism. Likewise, while Laila Hemawati was happy to give Asha permission to use the bibliographical search system, Sasa On denied it because, to him, letting an unauthorized person use it seemed like corruption and cronyism which violated the privacy of the citizens of Willarv.
Someone like that would see Asha -- who ruthlessly manipulates others to her own ends and who abuses her position to literally get away with murder -- as the worst sort of person. And, I mean -- if that's how he is -- then he has a point, doesn't he? Asha is abusing her position and trampling all over the rights and lives of others; and we know (and he might suspect) that she's not even doing it for any defensible reason, she's doing it purely for revenge.
Edited by Giantess, 25 May 2014 - 12:04 PM.