She-ra- Princess Of Power ✦ High Speed

“That’s First Ones tech,” she whispered. “Shadow Weaver will kill you for touching it.”

“I don’t know what that means,” Adora rasped.

That was the beginning.

Then the alarms blared.

“You could have had everything,” Catra spat during their third major battle, on the burning deck of a Horde skyship. “Respect. Power. Me . And you threw it away for a bunch of soft-hearted princesses who will never really trust you.” She-Ra- Princess of Power

In the phosphorescent gloom of the Fright Zone, where the air tasted of rust and recycled sorrow, a single figure moved with the silence of a falling star. Adora, Force Captain of the Horde, did not question the world. She executed orders. She drilled her squadron. She believed—truly, deeply—that the Horde’s victory would bring order to the chaos of Etheria.

The middle was harder.

Catra laughed, sharp and bitter. “So? We have swords.”