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Bright Moon

The kingdom lacked the usual bright and happy mood it used to have whenever the young princess now queen had looked at it from the balcony of her mother's room, now her room. Even after she had taken up her connection with the rune stone and accepted her position as queen Glimmer still felt that things just didn't feel right and often felt uncomfortable as she did paperwork and listened to the grievances of her people so she could do her best to help them.

Things are just so slow these right now. I'm stuck in this chair really only signing papers and giving orders to others to fight for me instead of actually going out and helping. Glimmer had always been a person to take action instead of just sitting around and waiting. Her new position was not only testing her ability as a queen but her own lacking patience as she read through the reports Bow, Adora and the other princesses were bringing her to keep her up to date on what was happening in the war against the horde. Maybe I should organize a sleep over. Give myself a break and a chance to properly catch up with everyone…. No, that won't work, I'm way to busy and so is everyone else. Mom I wish I knew what to do, what if I'm a horrible queen and what if I end up losing everything to the Horde after all the work you put in protecting Bright Moon.

Glimmer felt her frustration growing as she tried to focus on the papers in front of her before she just gave up delegating it to some of her officials and left to get some fresh air and cool down. Walking around the castle Glimmer just felt her own feelings suffocating her as memories of the time she spent with her mom kept running through her mind and making her feel worse as all she could think about was how they had argued before the portal had been opened and how she had never gotten a chance to say goodbye or apologize to her mother for how poorly she had treated her.

"Well, what brings the new Queen of Bright Moon down here to visit me?" Glimmer in her memory hazed state had not really thought about where she was going as she walked around the castle ending up in the room being used as Shadow Weaver's prison cell. The dark sorceress simply tending to the plants in her room barely giving Glimmer a glance as she continued with her botany. "It's rather unbecoming of a queen to simply gawk and not actually talk, you know."

"Well, I'm sorry for interrupting you hobby but this is my castle, and I can do what I want in it while you're a prisoner who's lucky to have such a nice room."

"A glided cage is still a cage princess much like it seems your new position is for you. All the power of a queen and yet your stuck here in this castle just like I am except I have something too keep me busy while you on the other hand are drowning in your own feelings of inadequacy." Glimmer didn't want to give the sorceress the satisfaction of confirming she was right but Shadow Weaver had hit the nail on the head.

"And how are you so content just being stuck in this room with no control over what happens to you and lacking any agency despite your power?" Asking the ex-villain for help didn't feel right for Glimmer yet she wanted some answers, anything that could help her.

Shadow Weaver paused in her gardening looking at the once princess, now queen of Bright Moon standing behind her. "It's rather simple your majesty, I know how lucky I was that Adora decided to heal me, and I know how lucky I am to be in such a nice room in Bright Moon instead of a prison cell in Mystacor. I also know I am valuable to you and the Rebellion so even if I am currently incarcerated, I know my future is assured. This is not the answer you're looking for however is it my queen.

Glimmer shrugged not sure what else to do as she listened to the sorceress speak.

"No, you're feeling trapped but more because you feel powerless which is made worse because of all the power you actually wield now. You have armies at your command, people looking to you for answers you feel you don't have and your feel stuck now that you can't fight on the front lines with your friends anymore. Your majesty what you have to realise is that even if you don't feel like it, you have power. You are the one in charge making the decisions that need to be made and you need to stop looking at the small picture and focus on the bigger one. Once you stop looking at the small picture the whole time and focus on the bigger picture more these small things will just fade away and stop worrying you as much."

Glimmer just felt confused as she turned to leave as Shadow Weaver went back to gardening. "Oh, Glimmer you should really get Castaspella to train you more. You have such great potential magically and it would be a shame for you to squander it when you have access to an adequate teacher."

Glimmer walked away back to her room before releasing a breath she hadn't know she had been holding. Glimmer felt confused as she mulled over her own feelings and the things Shadow Weaver had spoken about. Glimmer didn't have much time to think whoever as a messenger bird arrived with a warning about Horde forces moving on Plumeria and its outer territories. Perfuma was asking for support in defending her kingdom as few of her people were really fighters and she didn't have the ability to fight off the Horde forces being sent on her own.

Glimmer felt a growing rage towards the Horde as all that she could think about was what they had cost her personally. Taking out some paper Glimmer wrote a message to Adora and Bow asking them to go assist Perfuma and then wrote a second letter to Perfuma that Bright Moon would be sending soldiers to help support her and fight off the Horde.

The Horde will pay. We wont just be fighting a defensive war anymore. We will push them back and wipe them out. No more lost homes, no more lost kingdoms, and no more lost moms.