"Can you tell me more?" Cat asks, out on Kara's balcony get away.
"About what, Ms.Grant?" she asks in reply, the name sour in her mouth, but a necessary evil.
"Your planet, Krypton. I was remembering that you said that there were no birds. If it hurts too much, you don't have to tell me. I'm just curious." Cat props her head up on her hand, eyes glittering with intelligence, hope and excitement.
"Sure. It hurts, but I like to keep the memories alive. Just poke me if I start to space out." Kara readjusts herself. "It was so different. Like I told you before, there weren't birds and the sun was red. The yellow sun here is what gives me my strength, and my powers. I need it to survive in fact. Eclipses really suck for me." Kara's words paint a picture for Cat.
She can feel herself being pulled away with her girlfriend.
"It was beautiful, true, but in a very sterile way. Everything was clean and cool and much too perfect. We were advanced centuries beyond Earth in technology and philosophy and equality. Those whose marriages were not arranged for political gain could marry anyone they liked. Bigotry, racism, and homophobia were never issues. Upon coming here, they confused the hell out of me..." Kara shakes her head in disgust and Cat chuckles darkly.
"Everything was perfect, except that we were literally killing ourselves. We had over-mined Krypton and killed it. Our own home. My planet. My entire world. No...my cousin and I...we're...anyway, Kal-El doesn't know much like this. He never experience any of it. I lived there for my first thirteen years. Kal doesn't seem to be all that interested in learning either. His Kryptonian is terrible. The accent...ugh." Kara snorts loudly.
"You spoke your own language?" Cat asks, intrigued.
"We spoke all of the languages. I arrived able to speak English.. There was a teaching module in my pod that I spent twelve years with." Kara affirms. "We did have our own, though. Spoken and written." Kara rips a sticky note away and loops writing into it.
"That's your name...Catherine." Kara says with a proud grin. She grabs another. "Grant." another and Cat can recognize the symbol from the suit. "My full name, Kara Zor-El."
"That's on your suit." she points out.
"Yes, and Kal's as well. The crest of the House of El. Our emblem, and it stands for hope. Upside down, it means resurrection." Cat can hear the grief in her voice and decides to give it a rest.
"May I keep these?" she asks.
"Sure, it's no big. I can show you more later." Kara shrugs.
"Lovely, now, let's take an early lunch at Noonan's." Cat stands and offers Kara her hand.
"That sounds perfect." Kara grins and follows her. Cat makes a mental note to take notes next time.
