Basically, it comes down to Zindy's reign as King. Specificially: Is there anything to suggest he was bussing a scumbuddy?
I read through starting at the top of page 86, where he reveals his LOE and first expresses his suspicion of SV (also Fritz and VitR). My conclusion:
1) SV spent a lot of time in her posts sucking up to the king (for the best example, see post 2137). I think that, were this part of a larger scum gambit to sacrifice one of their own to make the scumking (a) look innocent, and (b) be more likely to be made king again, SV would have come out FIRING a little more. Basically, were I scum in said situation (with another scum openly targeting me), I would have taken the hint , played along, and done as much as possible to mock/cast suspicion on/loudly argue with the king.
Instead, SV seemed all too willing and happy to comply w/ king's requests, never once casting suspicion on him, or really do anything to draw his ire. So the question is: Why, if SV knew she was being sacrificed for the betterment of the team, wouldn't she put up a better show/fight?
2) If Scum were sacrificing one of their own to achieve the above goals, why would Zindaras have waited so long, drawing the ire of nearly everyone in the process? Certainly, killing TOO quickly and TOO assuredly would look bad, but reading through again, Zindy's reign lasted about 6 pages longer than most people were comfortable with. Nearly anywhere between pages 89 and 94, he could have said "All right, I've seen enough, here's my best guess". He didn't, and people (including me) took him to task for it. Just unnecessary for a scum to cause that much ruckus in my opinion, even for WIFOM purposes.