Light Spinner (episode)

**Light Spinner**

*April 26, 2019*

## Light Spinner

**Light Spinner** is the sixth episode of Season Two and nineteenth episode overall of *She-Ra and the Princesses of Power*.

It was released on Netflix with the rest of the second season on April 26, 2019.

## Synopsis

*While imprisoned in the Fright Zone, Shadow Weaver recollected her past as Light Spinner - a powerful sorcerer who was teacher and confidant to Glimmer's father King Micah. Hordak gave Catra a difficult ultimatum.*

## Plot

In a memory of the past, Light Spinner begins casting light spells with her students. Prince Micah is one of her students and asks to learn to levitate and shape-shift, but Light Spinner reminds him that he is not yet old enough to learn those spells. She then laments that the sorcerers will not side with the princesses to fight the Horde. Micah says that they should fight the Horde.

Back in the Fright Zone, Hordak is working on his armor when Catra walks into his sanctum. He commands Catra to send Shadow Weaver to Beast Island, but she protests, saying that she could still get more information from the prisoner. Entrapta drops in during a brief power cut to explain that she's been integrating First Ones' tech into Hordak's portal machine's mainframe, which caused a massive power surge. Hordak then gives Catra two more days to get information from Shadow Weaver before sending her to Beast Island.

While in her cell, Shadow Weaver remembers teaching young Micah the fundamentals of sorcery. The pair steal lunar crystals from Mystacor's lunarium and pulverize them into a glowing dust that they used in spell casting. She then shows Micah some images of the destruction done by the Horde. The next day, Shadow Weaver addressed the sorcerers and demanded to use the Spell of Obtainment to fight the Horde. Norwyn, the former leader of Mystacor, rejects her plan, saying that the spell is dangerous and uncontrollable.

In the current time, Catra visits Shadow Weaver to try and convince her to help Hordak and save herself. Shadow Weaver asks Catra to bring her old Sorcerer's Guild badge, which she later does, hiding it in Shadow Weaver's food. Shadow Weaver uses some magic stored inside the badge to escape the Fright Zone with a spell.

In another flashback, Light Spinner and young Micah cast the Spell of Obtainment. The spell goes wrong, causing destruction. It envelopes Light Spinner though she fights against it. Norwyn and two other sorcerers arrive and demand to know what was going on. Enraged, Light Spinner attacks the two unnamed sorcerers and envelopes Norwyn in her magic. Then, she transports herself to the Fright Zone and joins the Horde.

In yet another flashback we see how baby Adora was found by Hordak, brought to the Fright Zone and given to Shadow Weaver as her ward.

In the current time, Catra returns to Shadow Weaver's cell, finds it empty and then falls into a tearful rage. Meanwhile, in Bright Moon, Bow, Adora and Glimmer try to boost the transmission Bow received on his tracker pad. Adora reads the transmission, which is in First Ones' writing, as "Serenia, Portal, Mara".

## Characters

* Adora/She-Ra
* Catra
* Shadow Weaver/Light Spinner
* Micah (flashback)
* Norwyn (flashback)
* Castaspella
* Glimmer
* Bow
* Scorpia

## Locations

* The Fright Zone
* Mystacor (flashback)

## Trivia

* It appears that The Horde landed on Etheria during the time Light Spinner was the teacher of young Micah.