This is sort of a rewrite of a letter I never thought I'd get or want to send, but now we're here, so I guess I'm sending it.
You were my enemy and and for the longest time I thought that was it; that we always would be. Before that, I had hope that you'd see the light and realize that Etheria was a beautiful place that needed to be saved. But after everything, I finally realized that you weren't going to be coming around and that made me so incredibly sad, Catra.
I missed you and I always did.
I missed your smile and the way your eyes gleamed when you beat me in race during training. I missed laughing with you. I even missed your stupid snoring! I still do.
Those are the things I thought about when I thought about you, Catra, during the war. Because those were the good things and remembering all the bad things? That just hurt. I just wanted to remember the good about you.
I'm sorry things ended up the way they did. I'm sorry you got hurt. I'm sorry about everything. I still think I'd redo it the same way if we had to redo it all over again, though. I don't know what's going to happen next with us or what this place is going to mean. I don't know how this is going to effect us. But I guess we're stuck together and maybe I can start remembering good things about you again.
I felt like i had to save everything and everyone. I saw how wonderful Etheria was outside of the Fright Zone and I couldn't just leave it. I had to pick that up and I had to be She-Ra because I was the only one who could.
You were the only person I ever cared about and the only person who cared about me! And then you turned around and rejected me! How was I supposed to feel? You were--you were always there and then you weren't and I didn't know what to do.
You always try to take so much on yourself and you shouldn't have to, but you do because you feel like it has to be you. And it's stupid. We could have been happy.
[ Catra feels like she's going to cry again, even though she thought she'd cried all her tears earlier with Saturday. ]
I just wanted my Adora back. And you didn't seem to get it.
[ That refers to so many things - to being She-Ra, to saving the planet, to protecting Catra when they were younger. If she doesn't do it, no one will. She has to. She has to or people get hurt. ]
I couldn't just go back to pretending the Horde was fine, Catra. You know that. I was wrong to think it was OK in the first place!
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