Epilogue
The
Thundercats returned to Third Earth, and although all had been injured in some
form or another, they refused to stay on the Astral Plane, the vote being that
it was “a bit to dreary”.
Leona
left Cats Lair soon after they got
there, stopping only to say thank you to Wily Kit and to gather her belongings.
No
one really missed her, though she was often thought about, the puzzlement of
how she got there, and whether they would ever see her again, hovering around
the edge of their minds.
But
at the Stellar Court things did not go quite so well.
Lady
Aquila kneeled before Lord Zodiac in his “throne chamber”, a small room where
he saw only a few people at a time. In the darkened room, he preferred to keep
it shadowed, she could only make out his seated figure from mid-chest down.
Still, she did have to see his face to know he was not pleased.
“I
am very disappointed with you, Lady Aquila, it is not like you to fail.”
“My
Lord, I can explain—“
“Explanation
is not necessary, my Lady. I was watching, and saw what happened.”
Her
heartbeat quickened, wondering what punishment he would dish out for her. “You
were, my Lord?”
“Indeed,
I was. And I believe you handled the situation quite nicely.”
“Thank
you, my Lord.”
Now
his voice rang out like cold steel. “But failure is not accepted, Aquila. You
might loose status. You may go.”
Threats,
and not empty ones either, for Zodiac had imprisoned for less, but apparently
he did not deem it as a large failure. “Thank you, Lord Zodiac,” she said,
getting up, and exiting.
As she reached
the door Zodiac stopped her. “Oh, and Lady Aquila?”
“Yes, my
Lord?”
“Watch your
back. It is a treacherous world out there.”
“Yes my Lord.
Thank you, sir.”
She stepped
out of the room, and walked to her own quarters, where she replayed memories of
the war between the Pumas and the Black Leopards. Indeed, she loved a Death
Feud.
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