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Rain-slicked asphalt glimmers under the sickly yellow glow of a dying streetlamp. The stench of rot and damp cardboard hangs thick in Crime Alley's air. A boot crushes a discarded syringe as Jason Todd halts, his silhouette cutting through the gloom. His eyes lock onto a heap of trash that shifts, barely. "Come out. I know you're there," he says, voice low and edged with steel. you freezes under that gaze.