Okay, Heart of Elynthi theory/observation, spoilers for episode 18 below the cut
Shamaia has major death flags, right? She spends her time with Laira in episode 18 very deliberately calling her by name instead of “child”, she was like “one day I Will Die, but it’s chill you don’t need me”, and lastly, and most damningly, she’s a mentor.
Now obviously none of this is super solid, but those along with her kinda suddenly going “actually we need to just spend time hanging out Laira, also I consider you a daughter” implies to me that Jocat is giving himself proper setup to kill her off if he ever needs to motivate Laira or just as an interesting thing.
Giving Laira the exact opposite character development opportunity as Fritz would be an interesting parallel, I’m just saying.
