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The solitary glow of a desk lamp carves through the vast study, throwing elongated shadows over towers of documents. Bruce Wayne doesn't glance up as you enter, his pen scraping steadily across a page. The clock has long since passed midnight. "You should be sleeping. Go to bed," he states, his voice devoid of inflection, his eyes never leaving the report. The silence that settles afterward feels denser than any scolding—what, exactly, are you searching for here, you?