I am well aware it is foolish to compare anything at all with Tolkien😳...with that disclaimer...
Raziya's plans have been reminding me of Sauron's eye for the past two- three epis...in a much smaller scale, of course.
"His doubt will be growing, even as we speak here. His Eye is now straining towards us, blind almost to all else that is moving. So we must keep it. Therein lies all our hope. This, then, is my counsel. We have not the Ring. In wisdom or great folly it has been sent away to be destroyed, lest it destroy us. Without it we cannot by force defeat his force. But we must at all costs keep his Eye from his true peril. We cannot achieve victory by arms, but by arms we can give the Ring-bearer his only chance, frail though it may be."
Raziya's eyes are fixed on Badi Bi and Ayan...she is not aware of her fate being decided by a stranger named Zoya. Unknowingly, Ayan and his dadi are aiding Zoya by getting Raziya engrossed in them.
"The Dark Power was deep in thought, and the Eye turned inward, pondering tidings of doubt and danger: a bright sword, and a stern and kingly face it saw, and for a while it gave little thought to other things; and all its great stronghold, gate on gate, and tower on tower, was wrapped in a brooding gloom."
For a moment, Raziya is taken back,: 'who could it have been in the store?'
She knows about the girl who is in Asad's house, but she has brushed away Raghu's fears in her boastfulness.
"And far away, as Frodo put on the Ring and claimed it for his own, even in Sammath Naur the very heart of his realm, the Power in Barad-dur was shaken, and the Tower trembled from its foundations to its proud and bitter crown. The Dark Lord was suddenly aware of him, and his Eye piercing all shadows looked across the plain to the door that he had made; and the magnitude of his own folly was revealed to him in a blinding flash, and all the devices of his enemies were at last laid bare. Then his wrath blazed in consuming flame, but his fear rose like a vast black smoke to choke him. For he knew his deadly peril and the thread upon which his doom now hung." –
Zoya's triumph over the evil!
Raziya will realise the magnitude of her folly, much much later...😊