This is 2 episodes in a row now where we've ended up trying to stop the sky from falling on us as the premise of a single episode and then ending up with a tragic loss due to someone's mistake, with this most recent loss unquestionably being ten times worse than the one before it.
Therefore, out of curiosity: Does the narrative team look back on this and see any issues with this pacing?
P.S.: I would also mention...
Caithe connecting herself to Aurene -- establishing herself as Aurene's conduit for mortal communication -- and then said dragon immediately biting the dust in the same episode...
...but I get the feeling that there simply has to be more to it than that. simply because, if there was nothing else to it, that would just be bad narrative design