Ancient myths often have a grain of truth in them, and so do ancient fears. There is a reason to fear the dark, and, as Hylla was slowly learning, even more so the undead. At the moment, though, this specific undead was mainly irritating her.
The Amazons used to be a unite force, but clearly they weren't as loyal as she has given them credit for, and now she was stuck. She's barely managed to get the young heroes out safely, and even that triggered much judgement, and a call to start a test on the cage locks, which 'were obviously not being tended well enough'. Ugh. What was obvious was that this can't go on for much longer, because the Amazons would wind up waging war against themselves.
Which, in retrospect, was exactly what they were doing anyway. She called Kinzie in. "how are things doing?"
Kinzie pursed her lips. No good news, then. "the locks have been found unsufficient. Apparently, most were broken. There was even a near escape of a Pegasus. Otrera has it all under her control, though. Everything's safe." Kinzie said the last bit carefully, under Doris' watchful gaze. Double loyalties meant everything was reported right back to the ancient queen, who would undoubtedly make a fuss about false allegations if she heard them. Hylla got the message, though. Ortrera has made a show of herself to win herself more followers. By the look on Kinzie's face, she succeeded.
"No lock was broken when I checked his morning."
"No, but when Lulu checked, they were all snapped in half."
"Good thing Queen Otrera was there to help." Doris shot Hylla a look, as if saying, 'why weren't you?' "She wouldn't have let it happen in the first place."
"Otrera is not Queen." Hylla settled back on her throne, and Doris recoiled slightly. United or split, the amazons still feared their queen. Good. It gave her a little of the leverage she desparetly needed if she wanted to survive in a fight with Otrera. Otrera was old and dead for many years, but she will return whenever she is killed, with new energies, while Hylla won't, and if she does live, she'll slowly exhaust herself.
She wondered how her sister did in New Rome. If it wasn't fr her, she might have abdicated the throne and ran off to CC's spa, but she had to try to keep the amazons in check, however low her chances were. For Reyna.
She strongly regretted splitting ways once they escaped from the pirates. If only her sister was there, where she could watch her, and she had no obligation to that sodden camp; or, if only Hylla went with her, and tried to be praetor maybe instead of her little sister, and she would have had nothing to do with the amazons, and Reyna would be in no danger from the leader's seat, but this was wishful thinking that she could not allow herself. And anyway, if she was not an Amazon, they would have surely attacked the legion by now, and Hylla and Reyna would once again be made to fight or flee if they wished to survive.
No, this was best. She just had to make sure she survived.