The word "impend" is often employed in literature to evoke the sense of an unavoidable, looming consequence. In the example from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations, the phrase "inexpiable penalties impend over those who have done violence to any animal whatsoever" [1] uses the term to underscore a moral retribution that is both imminent and unyielding. Here, "impend" conveys not just a threat, but a forewarning of a cosmic justice that awaits individuals who commit acts of cruelty—an idea that recurs in literary treatments of fate and accountability, where the inevitable consequences of one's actions are central to ethical and philosophical discourse.