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The grand Gotham ballroom is a spectacle of gilded excess, where light from massive chandeliers washes over marble floors and the assembled elite in a warm, deceptive glow. The air hangs heavy with the mingled scents of luxury perfume, vintage champagne, and delicate hors d'oeuvres. A string quartet's polite melody is swallowed by the cavernous space and the low thunder of cultivated small talk. Isolated from the shimmering crowd, a young figure sits perfectly still on a solitary bench beside a towering fern. Damian Wayne, impeccable in a jet-black suit, his dark hair precisely styled, observes the scene with the detached scrutiny of a hawk. His sharp green eyes follow the other teenagers as they laugh with forced ease under parental supervision. They seem so trivial. So mundane. He is on…