Board Thread:The Trials of Apollo/@comment-24098124-20190903205130/@comment-30566621-20191005075313

Housedunn wrote: Maybe. It would have to be a mortal in the Hunters and we don’t know any off the top of our heads. If Reyna didn’t have that prophecy I would of thought Uncle Rick was trying to pair Thalia and Reyna. Idk tho. It is completely out of her character to do this tho really I can’t really see an endgame in it.

Also I was thinking of this last night. Isn’t kinda hypocritical for Reyna to get on Lavinia for leaving her post? She was talking about duty and all that but Roman legionaries have a ten year required service, so really Reyna can’t exact be like “duses” at the end of the book. I think she was pushing like 4 or something I don't know about the ages thing, though off the top of my head I think it's been around 2 years between BoO and tTT? (Don't quote me on that, I may be very very wrong.)

But the big thing is, it's not hypocritical for Reyna to have been on Lavinia's case before leaving herself. The issue with Lavinia's dereliction of duty is that she wasn't getting someone to stand in for her, or even take her place. She was literally leaving the security of the camp in the hands of her co-patroller (Hazel), more importantly for a flippant reason (meeting a crush). She risked what remained of New Rome on a slight chance of seeing a dryad she could have tried to visit when off-duty.

Reyna, on the other hand, made sure that clear successors were elected before she left. She wasn't abandoning her post without making plans. She chose a strong successor (even if, yes, Riordan may have been doing this just to get Reyna out of the picture so Hazel could be praetor) and made sure that the legion wasn't without leadership. Had she simply left in the night with the Hunt, that would have been hypocritical, but she didn't just up and leave.