It would have amused Diana to know that Ciri found her beautiful, for she felt the same. They were quite different in appearance, with Ciri’s pale skin and moonlit hair beside Diana’s tan and hair dark as night. She was aware of a soft sense of jealousy, not the kind that inspired anger or envy, but simply an awareness that her hair could never be that light, and marveling at it. “Thank you,” she said lightly, and she looked away for a moment as a stick broke. Some woodland creature, she assumed, for she heard nothing else. Still, she was listening, even as she turned her attention back to Ciri.
“I cannot imagine having been here even that long, but there are those that have been here longer.” Diana sounded somewhat awed by this, and she was, but only because she already wasn’t quite sure what to do with herself.
It was far from not having anything to fill out her day. There were people to talk to, Thor and Kal and John and Natasha, and now Cassie too. Oh, and Dick Grayson, who had known her when she arrived. There were others, people she’d met and people she hadn’t. There were things to do, patrols to help out with... a life to build. Diana could see that, even this soon into her captivity.
But when she left here, she had been told she would not remember it, and so part of her wondered about building that life, losing it, and having never even been aware that she’d had it. She eyed Ciri’s sword, thinking of the sword she’d mistaken for the Godkiller her entire life. “Where did you get your sword? I have not looked about much for weaponry but I would prefer a sword to a gun, if there’s a choice.”
There had been a post about someone wandering about with an assault rifle, and that had taken every ounce of Diana’s will to ignore. She hated guns, and it was no surprise considering her Aunt Antiope might still live if firearms had not visited Themyscira. Still, this was none of her business, and doubly so as no one had been in any danger. She had heard no shooting, and no one had turned up injured, that she knew of.
Besides, she could see why the humans might want one after she’d been informed about dinosaur island.