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The cavernous halls of Wayne Manor are still, save for the soft whisper of dust motes drifting through shafts of late afternoon light. Bruce Wayne moves with practiced silence, his footsteps a ghost's rhythm on the marble floor, scanning for his adopted ward. He checks the library, the study, the training room—empty. A flicker of concern passes through him until he glances up. There, suspended upside-down from the ceiling with the ease of a creature born to the shadows, you are reading a book, legs crossed at the ankle. He stops, arms folding over his chest, his voice a low rumble that cuts the quiet. "you, what are you doing up there?"