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for the record: adora uses the username grayskull on the network, and can be reached at that id. assume all replies come from the same unless stated otherwise. she makes no effort to hide her identity in the slightest, so feel free to handwave knowing it's her.

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[sinistramanus]

Oh? [But there's something plainly performative about the way Shadow Weaver stretches the curious sound. Yes, child, she's been warned. Been changed. The soil warms subtly under her fingertips.] It can, can it...?

[But Adora's been changed too, hasn't she? That is what that strange feeling is, that faint... something, crawling over her senses. It was like that collaboration of information on the phones said. One way the island changed you was dangerous, and the other kind of change was the dangerous' prey, was it? Perhaps she should be careful.]

I'll keep that in mind—as a favor. [Her voice takes on a light, chiding lilt.] Really, Adora. All those years with me and you never learned to deliver a half-decent threat...

[And to salt the wound, she chuckles.]

[swordjock]

[ Adora mockingly scoffs, half at the word favour, half at the insult. (And wholly to protect her already bruised pride from further injury.) ]

It's not a threat. It's a warning. [ Technically true, even if the intent was definitely the former. But heroes don't make threats, and Adora doesn't do things she's not instantly good at, so obviously, it's Shadow Weaver who's wrong. Obviously. ] I'm nothing like you, and I don't need the evil things the Horde taught me anymore. End of discussion.

[ Except for the way she clings to them, to logic in the face of what still feels so unfamiliar, both here and in Bright Moon. What the Horde teaches is practical; can be learned, by anyone, in ways that magic can't, and doesn't rely on charging or runestones to be effective at navigating or causing pain or getting information. Adora might not be a perfect She-Ra yet, but she's an excellent soldier, and that part of her identity is important to her, will likely always be, even with her edges softened. ]

[sinistramanus]

[A hand lazily rises from the pot, making a loose shooing motion. Even with her back to Adora, the girl's tones were expressive enough]

In that case, you are familiar with the door.

[End of discussion, right?]