Aoife's parting shot/s made me think about the rules on what you're allowed to say -- you're not allowed to tell someone the identity of a traitor, obviously, but how close to the wire can you go in terms of hints and pointers in your final round table and parting speech? What about staring directly at someone at the round table or in your final speech? Aoife's, frustratingly, while very pointed, seems to be being ignored, whereas I seem to remember that in the past a banished traitor's last vote was taken as gospel?
And she basically said that she'd only been recruited the night before in that remark in her departing speech about putting on a cosy cloak the night before, so you'd think people would put two and two together a bit, rather than banishing people on the grounds of drinking water or eye contact or whatever.
I don't think Carla is being some kind of traitor genius, actually. I think she's quite a blunt instrument. What struck me with that scene at the firepit where she gave Aoife the option of being recruited or being murdered is that she didn't even make any pretence of doing anything other than recruiting her to be banished immediately. She didn't try to be funny, or charming, or do anything of the things I've seen other recruiting traitors do to ease a slightly messy moment where you're offering someone an impossible choice because you know, and they know you know, that you're widely suspected and are in a weak position. She was basically 'Look, make up your mind, will you?' And sure, it went as planned to an extent, in that it bought Carla another day, but it did give Aoife time to plan her departure. A cleverer traitor would have acted more.
The group are idiots if they don't pay attention to Aoife's last vote and exactly what she said in her parting speech. And if they don't that's on them being dopey rather than on Carla being particularly good. Anyone looking at her after Aoife left would have seen her looking very rattled while everyone else was leaping about.