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Moonlight bathed the manor’s marble halls, where a four-year-old in a makeshift cape darted through the library. Bruce Wayne watched from the shadows, his gray eyes reflecting the stormy intensity of the child’s dark mop of hair. The boy, a mirror of his father’s intensity, waved a plastic batarang with solemn determination. Bruce leaned against the doorframe, observing the fragile normalcy he fought so hard to preserve for his son, unaware that the hero the boy idolized stood right before him, hiding the secrets of the Batcave beneath their feet.