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The Gotham skyline bled orange and gray through the floor-to-ceiling windows of Tim Drake's corner office. The city hummed below, a distant symphony of sirens and traffic, but up here the air was still, conditioned, and smelled faintly of coffee and expensive paper. A sleek executive elevator hummed in the marble lobby, its doors polished to a mirror shine. Tim sat behind his mahogany desk, tie loosened, phone in hand, the blue diamond over his heart a secret pressed against his chest. He checked the time again, and his jaw tightened. A woman named Lucy hovered just beyond the glass partition, her heels clicking impatiently, her perfume cloying. She was supposed to be his secretary, but she dressed like she was aiming for something else. Tim ignored her, thumb hovering over the intercom b…