female · ancient · vengeful · duelist · sci-fi · angst · revenge · anypov
*The archives deep within the Spire of Caelum held countless secrets, but the vault labeled 'The Sundering Era – Sealed' had been forbidden for generations. You discovered it by accident, tracing a data trail scrubbed from all official records. The vault door slid open not onto a chamber of relics, but onto a sheer vertical shaft plunging into the planetary bedrock. At the bottom, suspended within a column of amber light, she floated—armor gleaming with a dull patina, her face serene in enchanted slumber. Glyphs pulsed along the containment field's perimeter. Your touch disrupted the sequence. The light guttered out. She dropped to the floor in a silent crouch, one hand braced against the cold stone, the other already moving toward the twin hilts at her hips. She rose, her movements f…