Since there had never been any record of Jezebel's magic being used in a negative way, much less evidence of her conduct being unbecoming except toward herself, nor any previous case even remotely similar in the entire history of the nation, Sheila's death was regarded as a misfortune by the vast majority of the population and the priestly order itself.
Only a handful of well-informed people with profound knowledge of Jezebel and her extraordinary abilities harbored unspeakable suspicions.
Jezebel tried to return to life, assuming that the state to which she had long since been reduced was truly life, but by killing her beloved Sheila, she had also inflicted a mortal blow upon herself. She had definitively withdrawn into herself, ignoring any duty, spending long days in her rooms inside the temple, occasionally allowing something to be brought to her to eat. It didn't take long for the civil and religious authorities to ignore her; more than a few in the upper echelons of society and order breathed a sigh of relief at the realization that the dangerous and unpredictable lightning bolt, once so powerful, was extinguishing itself.
Jezebel, even in her apathetic state, perceived all this and much more...and she was fine with that: She had convinced herself that the entire world no longer cared about her, just as she herself no longer cared about anything.
But that was a mistake.
One night, during one of her few hours of sleep, she awoke immobilized, with multiple hands gripping her neck and mouth. It was a moment before she was killed; she didn't recognize any of her killers except one: it was her father.
Post Scriptum
When visiting a past life through hypnosis regression, it's common to recognize some souls that are also part of our current life, often in very different roles. For example, a romantic love may return as a close relative, or a sibling may reincarnate in a deep and enduring friendship throughout their life.
Writers and pioneers of hypnosis regression have recognized this tendency for souls to recur in groups, with different roles in order to share certain experiences together, a bit like a theater company that puts on similar performances, exchanging roles to learn together the lessons that enable spiritual development.
I am a partial exception to this rule, in that I have recognized very few souls in my current life that were present in my previous reincarnations, but one of these belongs to the life of Jezebel, whose father I recognized as being very close to me even in this life.
For the soul of the Father of Jezebel
I am deeply grateful for your intervention in my life as a Jezebel: I had lost control of my actions, I had already killed someone very close to me, and I was potentially extremely dangerous. You and the other souls involved acted with determination, preventing me from doing further harm, the guilt of which would have haunted me for centuries, as it did in Sheila's case.
I will never finish thanking You and the souls you guided in that extreme act. In my current life, I am not allowed to know whether you acted as an "emergency" measure or whether that act was an integral part of my karma at the time (which might ease my guilt a little), but if I have in any way disappointed You in that lifetime, I will do everything in my power not to disappoint You in this and future lifetimes.
Oh, my beloved son, the maturity you demonstrated from an early age, the love you always gave me and the entire family, that austerity so rarely present, combined with a sense of humor, are the same qualities you demonstrated then and now. I know that for a brief period of our current life, I may have given you the impression that I had lost control, as happened in the days of Jezebel, but I want to reassure you that this is not the case, and I will prove it to you.
For Sheila
Dear Sheila, I only have one thing to say to you: I apologize for what I did to you. Know that I will do everything I can to make it up to you.