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Title: The Price of Anarchy (Part 2/3)
Fandom: She-Ra and the Princesses of Power
Pairing: Catra/Adora
Chapter Word Count: 4,815
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Summary: Adora tries to change Catra; Catra tries to change the Horde. Both fail; both succeed. (The Catra-starts-a-quiet-revolution-inside-the-Horde story.)
Chapter Summary: Showdown at the Dryl castle.
[AO3 Link] [Previous Chapter]
Summary: Adora tries to change Catra; Catra tries to change the Horde. Both fail; both succeed. (The Catra-starts-a-quiet-revolution-inside-the-Horde story.)
Chapter Summary: Showdown at the Dryl castle.
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Hordak kept most of his enemies—the ones he did not execute—in the Lightning Tower, erected decades ago at the edge of the Fright Zone. It was easily the tallest manmade structure one could see for miles around and looked, to Catra and Adora when they were young, like a block of cheese tacked onto a sky-scraping needle. A giant, multi-headed snake rumored to be Hordak’s childhood pet guarded the base of the Tower, while the block at the top held the Tower’s prisoners.
A sentence to the Tower normally equated isolation for life, and soldiers stationed near it would often report hearing the screeches of its maddened prisoners when the winds hit the surrounding deserts especially hard. But when Catra had asked for access to the Tower as his second-in-command, Hordak had agreed easily. Perhaps it amused him.
It was two weeks before Scorpia was due to return to the Fright Zone, triumphant, flushed with new towns and new people pledging loyalty to the Horde—through their loyalty to her and Scorpion Hall. It was then that Catra paid the Lightning Tower another visit.
“Shadoweaver,” Catra said now, lazy, from the other side of the cell door. “How have you been doing?”
