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Astra Prime hesitated.

Astra Prime looked at her for a long moment. For the first time, Val saw something crack in that perfect facade—a flicker of exhaustion, maybe even envy.

“They’re alive,” Val said, wiping blood from her cheek. superheroine central

Val raised her hand. “What if we’re not flawless?”

“When I started,” Astra said, so softly the others couldn’t hear, “I wasn’t a symbol. I was just a woman who could punch through walls. And I was happier.” Astra Prime hesitated

The breaking point came on Saturday.

Afterward, the after-action report criticized her for “excessive debris scatter” and “suboptimal hair placement during the televised rescue.” “They’re alive,” Val said, wiping blood from her cheek

By Friday, Val understood the ugly truth. Superheroine Central wasn’t a team. It was a brand . And Astra Prime wasn’t just the leader—she was the product of decades of that branding. A woman so carefully constructed that Val wasn’t sure if there was a person underneath the solar-powered armor.