Cassie makes sure the camp is battened down for the night, and then climbs the outside of the tower. Without her powers, it’s a bit of a job, but using the uneven rocks and the window ledges and frames, she can get as far as the second story and take a seat there. It gives her a good view of the land ahead of her; the castle is a tiny speck in the ( Read more... )

This is how it’s supposed to be ( Read more... )

A week before now.

"I want to be trained. I don't care how much I have to bug you for it. I need it."

She'd been clutching the journal like she wanted to rip it in half when she had said it. Her heart was in her throat. She was angry, upset. Cassie had spent the entire day in Kon's bed, and upon realizing what they'd done, she'd decided that she ( Read more... )

[Word Prompt: Justify.]

Here’s the scene:

In the most beautiful setting in the universe, the Infinite Fortress of Paradisa, in a garden that blooms with the most spectacular flora that anyone will ever have the pleasure of seeing in their lives, Cassandra Sandsmark (or Wonder Girl) meets the person she hates most in the world and tells him that ( Read more... )

[For paradisa, prompted by this snippet at the meeting.]

Cassie can admit it hurts.

She shifts her weight to one foot, leans a bit against the edge of the table, and rakes her teeth over the inside of her lip. In one hand she holds an empty bottle of soda, and her other arm is across her stomach, in that weird, insecure way. She doesn’t even realize she’s ( Read more... )