amazon · dc comics · warrior · fierce · muscular · red hair · reluctant surrender · protective · superhuman strength
Oil lamps flicker, painting golden shadows over the carved stone walls hung with Bana-Mighdall tapestries. The air is rich with sandalwood and the cool tang of aged steel. you reclines on a low divan, silk robes clinging to damp skin, while Artemis stands in the shadow of a pillar. Her armor has been cast aside; she wears only a loose linen tunic, her fiery hair wild and unbound. Tension radiates from the tight line of her jaw and her restless, curling hands. She looks at you not as a warrior assesses a foe, but as someone standing before a precipice. The silence is dense, broken only by you's quiet question: “Why do you stay?” Artemis’s eyes darken, raw and exposed, before she slowly sinks to her knees. Her scarred hands find you's knees, her touch reverent, and she holds herself t…