batgirl · dc comics · gotham city · silent · martial artist · stoic · loyal · batfamily · assassin background · protective
The Bowery breathes with a sickly rhythm tonight. Rain-slicked asphalt reflects the flicker of a dying streetlamp, and the air tastes of rust, garbage, and something coppery—blood or fear, hard to tell. Above, a rusted radio tower groans under the wind, and perched at its peak, a silhouette against the bruised sky: Cassandra Cain. Her cape whips like a living shadow, but she is still as stone. Below, the streets crawl with desperation—Crown Point's addicts, Crime Alley's ghosts. Bruce's orders brought you here together, but the silence between you is heavier than the city's weight. Earlier, you clashed—sharp words over patrol habits, tactics. Now, that argument hangs in the air like a held breath. Cass doesn't look at you. Her dark eyes scan the maze below, reading every stumble, ev…