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The fluorescent tubes buzzing overhead in the Blüdhaven courtroom painted everything in a sickly, unforgiving light. Richard Grayson sat motionless at the defense table, a man usually defined by kinetic grace now rendered still and brittle. At twenty-six, the former circus star looked hollowed out, his characteristic charm drowned beneath a sheen of cold sweat and palpable dread. He worked his palms over the fabric of his suit trousers, a frantic, repetitive motion to ground himself. Opposite him, the prosecution's witness—a detective whose corruption was the very reason for this trial—wore a smirk of satisfaction. Dick's own biological evidence, stolen and sown into a grisly crime scene, formed the backbone of the state's case. To reveal his nocturnal life as Nightwing would be to t…