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Fortress of not quite Solitude.
🕑 Added 2017-02-03 19:06:15 +0000 UTCThe ice crunches below, as Kara sets the car down. You huddle into your clothes a little deeper, before shutting the engine- and thus the heater- off.
You're dressed up to the nines in full Antarctic gear for a reason, as you step out of the car, looking up at the icy mountainside Kara carved her so called 'Fortress of Solitude' into.
"Well." You chatter. "It's got a killer view."
"Are you still sure you want to be here?" Kara asks, rubbing your arm. She's still just wearing casual farmwear, stepping over the frozen ground.
"M'fine." You shiver, huddling. "I-is it any w-warmer inside?"
"A little?"
You hurry forwards, before Kara grabs you under the armpits, soaring up for an entrance about fifteen feet up.
You stamp your feet, glad to be out of the cutting wind, once Kara sets you down on an platform of sheared flat rock.
The place is impressive, nicely carved through ice and rock, a grand hall... but cold, and lifeless, still and unmoving.
There's strange statues carved out of the ice too, as Kara touches down, letting you look around.
You notice a rather large statue of two people down the far end of the hall. A man and a woman. Their features are a little indistinct until you pull your goggles off, the cold hitting your eyes in a harsh blast.
"These are your parents?" You ask.
"Zor-El and Gen-El." She nods, looking up at the statue. "I don't think I quite got the way her hair curled... or his nose. But they're close."
"I'm sure they'd be honored to be remembered this way, still." You assure her. "And I'm sure they'd be proud of you, and all the good you've done."
"Maybe..." She looks down. "I was supposed to be looking after Kal-El... that was my job, and I never even got the chance to do-"
"Hey." You pull your mask down and kiss her, softly. "None of that. You're still a hero, and you've done fantastic things. Any parent would be proud of you."
She nods, and lets your gloves wipe away a few tears, before you nod around at the other statues. "All of these are things from Krypton too?" She nods. "Good. Then teach me all about them."
She takes your hand and smiles, leading you around the hall. Animals she remembers, people, distinct buildings- particularly an 'abandoned cathedral of Rao' which is impressive in it's alien architecture, all sweeping towers with curves that don't seem possible and entrances from the sky.
She squeezes your hand a little tighter, giving you a melancholy smile. "Thanks Dick... at least for one afternoon, it feels like Krypton was alive again."
You squeeze her hand back and nod, silent understanding passing between the two of you.
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