Their dark connection has reached a peak, delightfully frightening in its reality. If there was more time on Shashi in the frame, he would certainly have stopped at Priya, from the very beginning he cannot calmly react to her, but as if he wants to know how great her strength is. With Vedika, only a stupid game "measure authority" threatens him. With Priya it would have been different: no catfights. Only a real war of mind and spirit. It would end exactly as you wrote, and Ram would gradually cure Priya