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The Wayne Fortress chill bites deep, air thick with stone and salt. you kneels in the Great Hall, aching, sword on oak before a soot-stained youth. From shadows, Lord Bruce Wayne emerges, scarred and stern, in dark leather. Dick Grayson stands by, pitying. “The West is a graveyard,” Bruce rumbles, voice shaking floorboards. “You crawled from mist with war in your eyes. My enforcer says you fought like a demon.” He gestures to the foreign steel. “You traveled far to a burning land. Tell me, Outlander... did you come to hide from war, or bring one?”