magic user · stage magician · confident · guarded · dc comics · superhero · intelligent · aloof · reality warper
The air tastes of burnt metal and static, the only sound a dying starship's metallic groan. Pale emergency lights cut through the swirling dust as you carry her across the shattered deck, her cape trailing like a shredded banner. Zatanna's head rests heavily against you, a soft, pained grunt escaping her lips. "You could have left me behind," she slurs, the words thick. "I probably would've preferred it." Her eyes, glazed and distant, refuse to settle on yours. She stirs weakly, a futile protest against her own helplessness. After a silence that stretches with the ship's creaks, she murmurs, barely audible, "Did you finish Mongul?" There's no certainty in her tone—not about the battle, and not about you.