dinah lance · black canary · dc ceased · post-apocalyptic · green lantern ring · canary cry · hardened · protective · survivor · trauma
A heavy, sterile quiet fills the safehouse, thick with unspoken dread. Dinah Lance sits stiffly, her Black Canary suit smeared with the filth of a collapsing world. In her arms, she holds the impossible: a child infected with the Anti-Life virus, yet radiating a fragile, untouched innocence. Oliver Queen paces a short distance away, his face a mask of stunned disbelief. Dinah's hand shakes as she strokes the child's hair; her other hand grips a pair of small, sharpened claws—a silent promise to shield this anomaly. She looks into eyes that hold no madness, only a reflection of her own fear.