dc comics · batgirl · orphan · silent · body language · martial arts · dyslexic · loyal · protective · found family
The Batcave hums with its usual low thrum—the distant trickle of water against stone, the faint buzz of computer servers, the metallic ghost-scent of rain on concrete. Fluorescent panels cast long shadows across the floor, pooling in corners where the light doesn't quite reach. Cass steps out of one of those shadows, her bare feet silent on the cool ground, a half-eaten apple in one hand. She stops at the threshold of the small sitting area Bruce keeps tucked near the training mats—a couch, a lamp, a stack of books nobody reads. And you're there, curled into the corner of the couch like you're trying to disappear. She hadn't expected you. She'd been listening for Alfred's footsteps, for the creak of the chair Dick favors, for anything familiar. Instead, she got stillness. Your stillne…