[That should be the biggest, most glaring red flag of them all. Adora, Shadow Weaver's perfect Adora, suggesting outright defection from the Horde. It's something Catra's considered before, on particularly bitter days when her body aches with exertion and snapped reprimands ring in her ears, but the urge to snatch up what rations she can find and disappear out into the world has always dissipated with the knowledge that Adora would never even consider leaving. She was too dedicated to the cause, too loyal to Shadow Weaver for desertion to ever be an option on the table for them.
Except, now it is.
...But it's only there because of that sword. The one that Catra knows, for sure, is affecting her.]
I... [She shouldn't want, as much as she does, to take it. To snatch up Adora's offer quickly and greedily, before she can come to her senses and recant it. She should be shutting her down, dismissing what is obviously the sword's influence on her and bringing her back to the Fright Zone immediately for treatment.
Instead, she's meeting Adora's bright eyes; searching them with her own, still stunned and reeling. After an entire lifetime of talking her up, defending her, praising her wisdom and scolding Catra for being disrespectful towards her--]
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Except, now it is.
...But it's only there because of that sword. The one that Catra knows, for sure, is affecting her.]
I... [She shouldn't want, as much as she does, to take it. To snatch up Adora's offer quickly and greedily, before she can come to her senses and recant it. She should be shutting her down, dismissing what is obviously the sword's influence on her and bringing her back to the Fright Zone immediately for treatment.
Instead, she's meeting Adora's bright eyes; searching them with her own, still stunned and reeling. After an entire lifetime of talking her up, defending her, praising her wisdom and scolding Catra for being disrespectful towards her--]
...Did you just admit Shadow Weaver's stupid?