Harlia was dead.
Yet, she was moving.
Malvador and everyone else was surprised but when they figured it was their Admiral, they kind of understood something like this. She was a strong, dangerous, egofilled woman. She doesn't forgive her enemies. She kills them or she dies.
Up to this point, none of her enemies had managed to kill her but Malvador did. He killed her.
However, even after killing her, Malvador wasn't safe.
After death, Harlia wasn't dead. She was still moving.
She crawled towards Malvador and for a while, he was scared of seeing something like that. He had no idea something like this could happen to him. All his enemies end up dead and never move again, and yet, Harlia wasn't the same as them at all. She was moving like nothing happened to her at all.
But after a few seconds, Malvador stopped moving back.
He let go of his fear as no matter how anyone saw it, she was already dead. She was only moving because of her deep desire for revenge.