Diana was still beneath the Hall of Justice, in her own living quarters, carving a stone statue of her mother while waiting for Su Ming to return.
It was not as though the statue was still warm from his trip, but she clearly had not expected him to come back so quickly.
"Why didn't you go upstairs for the celebration?"
Su Ming asked from behind her as he watched her standing atop a stepladder.
"Hm? A celebration?"
She seemed to know nothing about it, and no one had notified her. Perhaps J'onn had been dragged off by Hawkgirl to face family discipline shortly after returning.
So Deathstroke roughly explained what had happened to her, naturally the sanitized version.
After explaining everything, Su Ming showed her his new wheelchair as well, spinning it through the air a few times. "Yeah, I killed Perpetua, captured Cheetah and the others, and had J'onn come back first to bring you the news."
Wonder Woman's eyes lit up. She jumped down from the ladder and dusted the marble powder from her skirt. "Then I need to go see whether Minerva is all right."
Sure enough, she was still most concerned about Cheetah, even more than J'onn's return.
"She's fine. Perpetua just locked her in a coffin and nearly drained her dry, then I knocked her out. She should be in a cell now." Su Ming stopped her as she hurried away. He knew exactly how much force he had used; Cheetah definitely would not wake up for several hours.
Diana's gaze sharpened, as though she had seen through some hidden truth. "You hit her with a Frying Pan again, didn't you?"
"Couldn't be helped. She'd wanted to die for a long time. What if she bit her tongue and killed herself? Harley's ball gag was