What Is Alison's Relationship to Power?

It just feels like she was backed into a corner for so long. She's also been emboldened by Larris and Kristen Cole, her allies who they're hermetically sealed in their disdain towards Renira and the whole regime. So when it's so obvious that Verserus is going to choose Renira and throws the threat of that being treason for what I'm saying or what my boys have said, I think that's just when she just breaks. "I don't even think she realizes she's grabbed the knife and is chasing towards Renira until she slices her"