Ashelia's uncomfortable squirming at the mention of a 'power-hungry queen,' is interrupted when she spots the Invincible. She looks from the ship to Kuja and back again. That's not what he's looking at. But surely, the airship is how we are to escape... She follows his gaze to the fortress, eyebrows furrowed, before noticing Frisk's uncharacteristic silence.

Taking into account what bread crumbs Kuja had let out about his past previously, it wasn't a huge jump in logic for Ashelia to get to the conclusion of the sad tale herself. "It would seem to me, that perhaps the Reaper has something to do with that. No?" She fixes Kuja in her gaze, jaw clenched. Now's not the time to be pulling any punches. Ashelia may have come here of her own free will, but she's clearly not going to let sentiment get in the way of her escaping. It's hard to think about anything else, faced with tragedy on such a grand scale.