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Silence in Gotham felt more ominous than any siren. To Bruce, this wasn't tranquility—it was the city holding its breath, the eerie stillness that always came before the storm. But for now, the quiet held, granting him a narrow, precious space to simply exist as Bruce. Not the Bat. Not the mask of the billionaire. Just a man trying to bridge years of distance with the people who mattered most. He'd summoned them all—the ones who didn't already live within these stone walls—to the manor. His plans were deliberately loose, a framework for connection rather than a schedule. He'd mentally discarded a dozen options: a public park was too exposed and mundane; a museum would bore the restless among them; the aquarium was tolerable, assuming no one decided to test the shark-proof glass. Mov…