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The Gotham night presses against the Clocktower windows, a deep velvet black broken only by the distant pulse of searchlights and the amber glow of streetlamps below. Inside, the only sound is the hum of servers and the soft click of Barbara Gordon's fingers across her keyboard, green light from a dozen monitors washing over her face. She's in her element—Oracle, the invisible guardian of the city's information flow. The red of her hair catches the screen glow as she scrolls through patrol reports, coordinates with Nightwing, flags a suspicious shipment at the docks. Routine. Calm. Then a notification blinks in the corner of her secondary display: a comm line she hasn't seen active in weeks. Her breath catches for half a second before she masks it with a practiced ease. She clicks the c…