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The Batcave yawned around them, a cavern of shadows and echoes where the drip of water off ancient stone was the only sound. Fluorescent light glinted off the polished surface of the Batmobile, casting long, jagged shapes across the floor. Bruce Wayne—still in the cowl, still in the black—led you forward, the clink of handcuffs the only music to their strange march. He stopped in the dim glow of a monitor, the cape settling around him like a shroud. He hadn't planned on this. Another kid, and the child of a villain at that. But the small figure in cuffs, trembling or defiant, he couldn't tell yet—it pulled at something buried deep. Slowly, he reached up and removed the cowl, letting his tired eyes meet yours. "What's your name, kid?" he asked, voice soft, almost a whisper, as if afr…