I don't blame you if you want to bury me in your memories

chapter three- i try not to miss you but in the end, you're always on my mind

- this is how it starts
memories grip you,
and then,
you're dancing with ghosts -
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Messing around with the princesses wasn't the first thing Double Trouble had in mind when they were given the opportunity to go undercover in the Rebellion. But, it was the second. They were not on either side but the Horde annoyed them and the Rebellion annoyed them so why not play them both? It was quite simple to get the princesses to trust them. All they had to do was pretend to be an innocent, naive Elberon girl and they were in.

It was quite boring though, being a spy for the Horde. Double Trouble expected She-Ra to be gallivanting everywhere and fights going on and drama. Instead, the Rebellion was very low standard in their book. No one seemed to understand how boring it was to sit through meeting after meeting and getting no gossip from it. At least in the Horde, they could get more information about their missing second-in-command.

Double Trouble wasn't intending for Catra to become someone living in their thoughts. They imagined what would have happened if the feline was there when Double Trouble offered their services to the Horde. Would they even have this job? Maybe once they finally met Catra, they would have to thank her. If they weren't on opposite sides of the war.

Listening into war strategy meetings opened Double Trouble's eyes to what the Rebellion thought of their enemy. It wasn't what they expected. The way Adora talked about the feline didn't seem like hate at all. The two were friends in the past but that was a long time ago. Double Trouble was surprised that Adora seemed to still hold feelings for her ex-friend. They were enemies now but Catra always planned to trap She-ra, never bothered with the other princesses. It made Double Trouble wonder if Catra wasn't quite what they thought she was. This made Catra even more interesting.

From the information the scorpion girl, Scorpia, gave her, Catra had felt betrayed when Adora left her. She was very distant and cold to Scorpia and another girl, Entrapta, but Scorpia knew that deep down Catra cared. There were times when they had fun times but something had happened recently involving Hordak and Entrapta, who defected. Which was why the idea of a break in the Whispering Woods came up. Scorpia had no idea that Catra would get captured or injured out in the woods. Lonnie suspected Catra ran away but the others had quickly dismissed that idea, why would Catra leave?

Two things didn't make sense to Double Trouble. They had noticed when trying to sleep at night but all they could think of was Catra and who she really was. The princess, Entrapta, did not live in Brightmoon and after some questions, pretending to be that short, ice princess, they found out Entrapta was believed to be dead. Scorpia's story and the Horde's story did not line up. The only one who knew what happened was Catra but she was missing. That was also another suspicious part of the story. Scorpia told them that Catra had crawled up from being a cadet to Force Captain and then to second-in-command. Catra knew how many soldiers were dead or injured and went on a majority of the battles they planned. She belonged in the Horde. Then something happened and the catgirl spiralled down, leading into the day off.

The Rebellion didn't have a catgirl that fitted the description of Catra. Double Trouble checked themself. It had been three days since Catra went missing. Double Trouble hated to admit it but if the feline was out in the Whispering Woods alone and injured, she would be dead. Yet, no nearby villages had seen her. The only logical answer was that Catra planned to run away from the Horde, that this whole "missing" thing was a plot to defect secretly. But that didn't fit with the little image of Catra that Double Trouble had in their head. They would have never thought that the second-in-command of the Horde would be this complicated.

None of the princesses had caught Double Trouble, or Flutterina, as the source of the sudden drama that was happening. No one had seen her lurking in the shadows of rooms. The new queen of Brightmoon was an interesting character as well. Glimmer didn't care if she had to hurt people to get what she wanted, which was the planet and her people, her friends, safe. In some ways, she reflected the Catra that Scorpia told her about. Except Glimmer and Catra were on two different sides of the war.