[-ANCIENT PALACE-]
Right after the meeting of the Supreme Council, Selene convinced her older brother to lighten up.
She promised him that Melody would eventually turn around and come back to them.
They would only need time in setting things up without antagonizing anyone especially Melody's mother committed heinous crimes against other kingdoms and monarchs.
Thus, they need to tread carefully in their actions and in granting Melody her request to be reunited with her mother by giving her absolution from her crimes.
Even Alcyd chimed in the conversation of the two siblings and told Lucas that granting absolution to someone with a huge crime under their record would not be as easy as Melody and Lucas imagined it to be.
Because there would be percussion, process, and most importantly, the involved parties.