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“I felt you coming,” he said. His voice was silk over a knife blade. “The Sword of Omens has just enough light left to find me. But not enough to hurt me. Look.”

“I’m not asking you to take a wrong step. I’m asking you to take us to the spire’s core. From the inside.”

“That’s suicide,” Tygra said flatly. “The spire has a defense grid that turns flesh to vapor before you reach the first parapet.” thundercats

He showed the sun what it meant to be family , not by blood but by choice.

“No,” Lion-O agreed. “But it has a heart. And I have a sword that’s been inside that heart before. Every ThunderCat who ever lived put a piece of themselves into the Eye of Thundera. Not power. Not energy. Memory . The taste of rain on the homeworld. The sound of a mother’s voice. The weight of a sleeping kit in your arms.” “I felt you coming,” he said

He raised the sword—the dead sword, the empty hilt—and drove it into his own chest.

“It’s fading,” Tygra said quietly. He didn’t need to specify what. The sword’s sight had shrunk to a hundred yards. Their mutant tracking crystals were inert. Panthro’s prized Thundertank sat outside in pieces, stripped for wiring to power a single flickering lamp. But not enough to hurt me

Not deep. Just enough. Blood welled up, black in the false light, and ran down the blade. And as it touched the dead Eye, the Eye began to glow. Not gold. Not green. A soft, warm amber—the color of a hearth fire on a cold night.