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The soldiers fired. She didn't dodge.
Diana's hand went to her sword. Then stopped.
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The first bullet stopped an inch from her heart. Then another. Then a hundred. They hung in the air like frozen hail. From the trench, a young German soldier—barely eighteen—dropped his rifle. "Hexerei," he muttered. Witchcraft. Wonder.Woman.2017.720p.HEVC.BluRay.ORG.HIN-ENG....
The next morning, she walked into no man's land. Not with a shield. With a lasso glowing faintly gold.
Steve grabbed her arm. "We can still save tomorrow—"
Élise walked toward her through the fire, the child's voice now layered with something ancient. "You cannot save what does not wish to be saved, Princess." The soldiers fired
That night, the village of Veldt burned.
That night, as Steve Trevor patched a gash on her arm, he asked the question she dreaded. "You can't save everyone, Diana. You know that, right?"
By the time the dust settled, a little girl named Élise was staring up at a woman in dented, mud-splattered armor, whose eyes glowed like dying embers. "Are you an angel?" Élise whispered. Then stopped
For a long moment, the rain fell between them. Then the young soldier stepped out of the trench, hands raised. Behind him, another. Then another.
"There is no tomorrow!" she roared, and for an instant, lightning cracked from her tiara, splitting the chapel steeple. "I came to kill Ares. But he's already won. He's in every general, every bullet, every kind hand that turns to a fist."