Medusa's Gaze

Callisto felt her impending doom in the moment he chose to not avoid her gaze - not because she had fallen desperately in love or any stupidity of the sorts, reality was not a sappy love story - but because no one ever dared to sustain her stare when she found herself ruled by rage. A slight raise of her tone of voice that dripped with poison and a glare coming from her had always been enough to make them all petrified in fear, and yet, he sustained her stare in a quiet challenge.

Perhaps she should've taken that as a sign to drop the case and tell the FBI to shove their operation where the sun didn't shine, she had accepted their foolish demands for way too long now, but she still chose to stay. In part due to the fact that she never failed a mission before and didn't plan to start doing so now, but mostly because there was nothing in this world she adored more than a good challenge - and that stare he gave her had been the most interesting one she found in a while.

Callisto had made then her resolve: she would go all the way down until the very end. Even if the price became too high to be paid, she would not give up - she was in too deep to quit anyway. As she followed down a path that would lead to nothing but flames, she made a single wish - that the serpents on her body would warn her about her fall before it became too late.

ranked #15 in fbi
cover by: @xangientx