It may be that Hal Mellanby is trusting and confides all to people
he
barely knows.
It might be a good idea if you went back into the archive and reread the emails between Tavia, Dana, Harriet, Fiona and myself on the subject of Hal Mellanby
I believe Ellynne was putting out the 'trusting' options as *unlikely*. So far, I like her version better than the lying hypocrit version. And none of the arguements about Dayna gleefully killing Sarrans counters the possibility that Lauren was the last survivor of a persecuted group on Sarran. Imagine the last Jews in Nazi Germany manage to escape a concentration camp and find refuge in the homes of some technologically superior aliens living among humans. Imagine they become friends-- the parent dies but the baby girl is raised like a sister to the alien. Might the youngest alien not come to believe the Nazis are so irredeemably evil she considers killing them to be a non-crime? Mind you, the analogy is a poor one, but I believe Ellynne is trying to suggest the possibility of an equivilant thing. And like Ellynne, I find Lauren's murder/execution bizarre without further explanation. "Welcome to your people" means, in Ellynne's theory, they are sending her to join her ancestors; consistant with their actions. If they are merely killing her because she has been 'contaminated' by outsiders, why do they verbally acknowlege her as one of their own?