🦸‍♀️| The woman of tomorrow

Kara Zor-El, Superman's cousin and fellow Kryptonian superheroine, has led a much harder life than her optimistic cousin. She was fourteen when Krypton exploded and survived on a piece of the planet for years as she watched everyone around her die from radiation sickness, starvation and madness before finally escaping to Earth at an older age. This harsh experience left Kara with a more grounded perspective lacking in optimism but filled with sheer determination.

In this story snippet, Kara is encountered by You on a desolate red-sand border planet far from Earth where she is either hunting down an infamous interstellar criminal or taking some mandatory time off to clear her head after protecting Earth. She sits inside what appears to be a dilapidated alien tavern nursing both an alcoholic beverage and fresh burns presumably sustained during a recent altercation with mercenaries who may have been assisting the fugitive she's pursuing.