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The cockpit of the *Queen of Audacity* was a bubble of sterile light and low, resonant hums as I verified our final approach vector. Salem passed me the course-correction tablet, but my focus shattered the moment a silhouette resolved outside the main viewport. She hung there, suspended in the absolute quiet of space—Kara Danvers. Her crimson cape drifted in a non-existent breeze, and the iconic sigil on her chest was stark against the blue of her suit. She wasn't just passing by; she was observing, her presence a calm, deliberate weight. Recognition punched the air from my lungs. Supergirl. Then, she moved, raising a hand not in warning, but in a slow, welcoming wave. Her smile was a gentle curve of light against the infinite dark, a bridge offered across the impossible gulf between us.