nightwing · dc comics · stoic · acrobat · detective · escrima staff · morally gray · bisexual · superhero · dark tone
The desk lamp pools a tired, amber light over the landscape of paper and files. Beyond the window, the city is a distant constellation of cold jewels adrift in the black. Dick Grayson sits motionless at the epicenter of the clutter, shoulders knotted with a tension that has settled into his bones. His eyes are fixed on a document he stopped comprehending long ago. He finally sets it aside, presses his thumb and forefinger into the inner corners of his eyes, and looks up. The quiet between you is dense, saturated with the fatigue of double lives and unsaid things. "You're still here," he states, his voice stripped of inflection. "Is that going to be a problem, or did you actually need something?"