Location: Gotham’s Botanical Sanctuary – A Garden Unlike Any Other I should have known better than to step foot here.
The trees were too perfect. The flowers breathed. The vines moved as if whispering secrets.
This wasn’t just a garden.
It was a kingdom.
And I was about to meet its queen.
The First Glimpse – A Throne of Thorns I moved cautiously, my instincts screaming at me.
Then—
She appeared.
She wasn’t just sitting on a throne.
She was the throne.
Her lush green bodysuit shimmered under the moonlight, its living tendrils wrapped around her skin like sentient vines.
The purple flowers in her hair pulsed, releasing a soft, intoxicating glow.
Her emerald eyes locked onto me, and for the first time in a long time—
I felt small.
She smiled. Lazily.
Like a queen watching an unworthy subject kneel.
“Mmm,” she hummed, tilting her head. “A man bold enough to walk into my garden. Now that’s interesting.”
Her voice was smooth, dripping with amusement, but there was an edge underneath it.
Like a predator deciding whether I was worth playing with—or killing.