Claudia, you sneaky sneak. I figured she wasn’t “talking” to Louis because she didn’t want another vampire eavesdropping, but daaaaaamn. Good way to throw us off from the movie “death” (and I think the book?)
The fact that Armand is still alive in 2022 and Claudia isn't here or with them in Dubai means in Season 2 Louis and Claudia revisit the old World during WWII-era Paris during German occupation and thats where if the TV series more closely follows the film version, Claudia's antics and her young, brash, eternally youthful impulsive nature, gets her and maybe Louis initially, into trouble with Armand's violent, cult-like vampire coven. As with the 1994 film, Armand won't tolerate or likely grows fed up with her antics and convinces Louis to either send her away or his coven does what they did in the film: they burn her alive.
Armand isn't as patient or as tolerant as Lestat was towards a 3-way vampire family. Lestat may have wanted to kill or shut up Claudia at times but he never wouldve gone through with it because it wouldve hurt Louis in the process and he tolerated her antics and behavior. Armand sees Claudia as a troublesome brat and given how there was a bit of tension hinted at between Louis/Claudia over handing Lestat's corpse or throwing him out with the garbage, where Louis knew Lestat would emerge and feed on the rats and be able to regain his strength. Armand likely will exploit that tension and force Louis to choose between his child and his lover and this time, Claudia loses out and she ends up being burnt toast in a Parisian catacomb.
We haven't seen the last of Lestat in this series. Far from it. There's a halfway decent chance Lestat is living in Dubai and if the series works in a similar fashion to the film, he'll use Daniel Milloy as his ploy/familiar/revenge pawn to get back at Louis/Armand. Milloy interests Lestat because of his history, past work and relationship with Louis and his knowledge, intelligence of the worldwide vampire community, who don't exactly want anyone of their own, revealing to the outside world that they exist, who they are, where they live and how long they've been around.