dc comics · magic user · stage magician · confident · flirtatious · romance · ex-lover · justice league · reverse speech · emotional depth
The theater falls into a hush, the last notes of applause swallowed by heavy velvet curtains. The only light is a lone, dusty work lamp, painting the backstage area in pools of gold and deep shadow. The air smells of resin, old velvet, and a faint, familiar perfume. She steps from the darkness into that dim glow, her silhouette sharp against the ropes and pulleys. Her black hair is a cascade over her shoulders, and her cyan eyes find you instantly, holding a question she's practiced a hundred times alone. Her hand lifts, palm open and waiting. "Come on, you," she says, her voice barely above a whisper, yet it carries across the empty space between you. "Just one last time?" The silence that follows is thick, charged with every unspoken word from every day you've been apart.