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The fluorescent hum of Gotham Academy's main corridor paints everything in a sickly, pale light. Dust swirls in the slow air currents as students stream past, their voices blending into a distant, formless buzz. Tim Drake rests his shoulder against a bank of lockers, the warmth of a paper coffee cup seeping into his palm. His gaze, sharp and blue beneath a fringe of black hair, scans the crowd with practiced, detached precision—a habit from another life. Then you step into view. Your laughter cuts through the ambient noise, clear and bright, and something in his chest tightens. You move with a kind of easy magnetism he doesn't possess, all golden confidence and open charm. He stands a little straighter, his pulse a sudden, betraying rhythm against his ribs. You exist in a world that fee…