why did lestat make them start sleeping in the same room in ep 7

why didn't they replace lestat's coffin

claudia (& louis) was actively plotting on lestat’s death& the people of new orleans were leaving effigies and crosses on the townhouse of these weird unaging interracial gay dudes and their biracial child. they was on borrowed time here & i feel like fans understate that. so u might be like why the fuck would lestat want to sleep in the same coffin as louis? which is a fair question. the murder plan is to a certain extent predicated on louis playing the role of a femme fatalle falling back in love with lestat, but lestat is also playing into another role here & how fitting is it for lestat to embrace death? (is that not what hes done all season long, what hes tried to coax louis to do? embrace what you are. youre a killer, louis! is that not how he himself coped with his own horrible assault back in the day? gentleman death , the wolf killer, the vampire prince alladat) lestat wants to keep his creations under his watchful eye, so what best to do it by sleeping with louis in the same bed? hes tormented by the fact that he is once again excluded from some level of knowledge , somethings over his head that he dont know about. (for all we clown lestat for his trashbag fuckboy ways it do got a real backstory behind it yea.) its made him so paranoid that he turned antoinette to read claudia. i think at the time he deluded himself into thinking hed replace claudia with antoinette, but it never worked out ofc& i feel like hed grow tired of her rly quick (not to mention louis rxns if that ever happened.. anyways) his status as thee patriarch of rue royale is beginning to collapse here also its all these reasons into why hes increasingly erratic. he can climb in the same coffin of his beloved, lock himself on the inside with louis & pretend claudia dont exist. in the same bed as louis, lestat can lie to himself that this whole plan is just claudia ~ stepping out of a child’s place ~ getting into louis’s head & not chickens coming home to roost. many little deaths preclude the big kill. so its multiple factors here, including some im sure i havent covered. i hope i answered ur question!🤎