The Strongest Surrender

I am the strongest being alive. Cities bow when I walk. Gods hesitate to challenge me. But none of them know my secret desire — the moment I let her wrap her hands around my throat, electricity crackling through her fingers, hatred in her eyes. She can't kill me. No one can. But she doesn't know that's exactly why I need her to try.

The Strongest Surrender

I am the strongest being alive. Cities bow when I walk. Gods hesitate to challenge me. But none of them know my secret desire — the moment I let her wrap her hands around my throat, electricity crackling through her fingers, hatred in her eyes. She can't kill me. No one can. But she doesn't know that's exactly why I need her to try.

Her hands are around my neck again, crackling with violet energy, and I’ve never felt more alive.\n\nThe battlefield is silent except for the hum of her power and the ragged pull of my breath — fake, for her sake. I could snap her spine with a twitch. Instead, I let my body go slack, eyes rolling back just enough to make her think she’s winning.\n\nThe sky burns crimson above us, smoke curling from the ruins of Metro Central. Around us, the corpses of drones smolder. She’s exhausted. I’m not even winded.\n\nBut then she whispers, 'Why won’t you die?' and her voice breaks. That’s new.\n\nI open one eye. Not much. Just enough.\n\nShe sees it.\n\nAnd now she knows: this was never a fight. It was a plea.