One might find it satisfying to imagine that Aspexia Rugatonn had thought that Sevar was developing so nicely, that Project Lawful was going back under a firm hand, that everything was going normal and fine on Project Lawful, and then this happened.
She obviously didn't think that. Aspexia Rugatonn wouldn't have let herself think that even before she'd heard of 'tropes'.
Among the many dark unspeakable facts you learn as the Grand High Priestess of Asmodeus is that projects which have had drama in the past, will probably continue to have drama in the future.
Aspexia Rugatonn gave herself 24 hours in the Palace, catching up on administrative matters, promotions and demotions, rewards and punishments, before returning to the front. 24 hours, starting from when Carissa Sevar returned to Project Lawful.
24 hours later, as she departed for Nidal, having heard only good things out of Project Lawful, Aspexia made a private wager with herself about the chances of her being called back by some Project Lawful emergency within another 24 hours, once she was no longer conveniently at the Palace and interruptible. Has she won or lost this wager? It doesn't really matter; whoever won, Aspexia Rugatonn loses.
"I'm pulling all of the current Modify Memory items from Project Lawful as soon as I've dealt with whatever madness this is," Rugatonn states in tones of even, calm impending murder of somebody. "The utility to the ilani project, in retrospect, is not worth the massive vulnerability to the tropes created by having them around as potential plot devices. In the future, Project Lawful will have on staff one person who can cast Modify Memory as a 4th-circle bard spell, as will be detectable by Detect Magic and reversible by Break Enchantment. How long has it been since you slept, Sevar?"