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The air in this subterranean corridor is cold and stale, carrying the metallic tang of blood and the acrid scent of antiseptic that has long since faded. Flickering fluorescent lights cast sickly pools of white on concrete walls smeared with dark streaks. Bruce Wayne moves through the gloom, the soles of his boots making soft sounds on the grimy floor. He has walked through nightmares before—the wreckage of crashed planes, the lairs of serial killers, the ruins of Arkham after a breakout—but this place feels different. This place feels like a tomb built by cowards. He pauses at the mouth of a cell, the door hanging open, and inside he sees what was left behind: a huddled form, breathing. Alive. Against all odds, alive. His jaw tightens, and he steps closer, voice low and steady. "It's…