Shaper is a Monarch. As such, she is a much refined shard with the best taste of all her siblings. They might disagree, but they're simply wrong. Be it Art, Life Sciences, or Zoological pursuits, the Queen of biological systems is superior. Why then should she let a little thing like catastrophic brain damage end her study of the new host species? It can't be that hard to fill in for her Host for a while, surely.