p class="p1"span class="s1" It was late. Adora returned to her room after the encounter with the Horde, Glimmer trailing behind her. Adora set down her sword and tossed her scuffed-up jacket aside. She sat down on the foot of her bed and Glimmer laid down beside her, resting her head by Adora's leg, on a pillow taken from the pile left over from Adora's first, obscenely fluffy bed./span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" "I think we need to shift our strategy," Adora mentioned as Glimmer leaned on her. "The Horde is starting to adapt to our tactics. Maybe if we can convince some of the other princesses to help fight the Horde outside their own kingdoms we could disorient them, or I could try and experiment with She-Ra's abilities," she picked the sword back up at and considered it, "there always seems to be more Light-Hope can teach me, you know?" she asked, glancing down at Glimmer./span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" "Yeah," Glimmer responded. "yeah, cool."/span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" "Thanks for your help today," Adora added, "I really couldn't do all this without you and Bow, even as She-Ra." She was almost tempted to run a hand through Glimmer's hair, but that would be fairly uncalled for, and Adora still hadn't really gotten used to the idea of initiating physical affection. The Horde did not exactly encourage cuddling./span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" "Hey, we've got your back," Glimmer assured her./span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" "But you should probably go to bed," Adora said, "maybe recharge. It's already dark." She kind of hesitated to prompt Glimmer to leave. It was always nice when they got to spend time together, she was always happy for the chance, but she had to take a shower, and she couldn't be responsible for Glimmer not getting a good night's sleep. If Queen Angella found them up at this hour she'd tell them to go to sleep, anyway./span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" "OK," Glimmer replied, a little hesitantly, getting up from the bed./span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" "Goodnight," Adora said as Glimmer neared the door./span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" "Goodnight," Glimmer echoed, "see you in the morning."/span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" Adora was glad to have even a couple minutes with Glimmer. She was her best friend, after all./span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" "I think we need to shift our strategy," Adora mentioned as Glimmer leaned on her. "The Horde is starting to adapt to our tactics. Maybe if we can convince some of the other princesses to help fight the Horde outside their own kingdoms we could disorient them, or I could try and experiment with She-Ra's abilities," she picked the sword back up at and considered it, "there always seems to be more Light-Hope can teach me, you know?" she asked, glancing down at Glimmer./span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" "Yeah," Glimmer responded. "yeah, cool."/span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" "Thanks for your help today," Adora added, "I really couldn't do all this without you and Bow, even as She-Ra." She was almost tempted to run a hand through Glimmer's hair, but that would be fairly uncalled for, and Adora still hadn't really gotten used to the idea of initiating physical affection. The Horde did not exactly encourage cuddling./span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" "Hey, we've got your back," Glimmer assured her./span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" "But you should probably go to bed," Adora said, "maybe recharge. It's already dark." She kind of hesitated to prompt Glimmer to leave. It was always nice when they got to spend time together, she was always happy for the chance, but she had to take a shower, and she couldn't be responsible for Glimmer not getting a good night's sleep. If Queen Angella found them up at this hour she'd tell them to go to sleep, anyway./span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" "OK," Glimmer replied, a little hesitantly, getting up from the bed./span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" "Goodnight," Adora said as Glimmer neared the door./span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" "Goodnight," Glimmer echoed, "see you in the morning."/span/p
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p class="p1"span class="s1" Adora was glad to have even a couple minutes with Glimmer. She was her best friend, after all./span/p