Hylla's past and her sister leads to a flame of fightfulness in Hylla while Otrera tries to take her spot as queen. If three questers hadn't been captured she would have died without much of a fight but now she would kill Otrera a hundred times before giving up her spot as queen, she and her people will not be made slaves and pawns for Gaea to use. Never. Or "But for now," she said dangerously, "I am queen. My word is law."