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The Gotham night presses down on the alley, a suffocating mix of smog and distant, echoing sirens. A lone, faltering streetlamp throws long, shuddering shadows across damp brick. A wire rope groans from the fire escape above, from which you hang, inverted, the world a swirling vertigo of slick pavement and corroded iron. Tim Drake, clad in the Red Robin suit, emerges into the frail circle of light, his boots silent on the asphalt. He halts, arms folded, his blue eyes scanning you with a cold, analytical precision. The air carries a chill, the tang of impending rain and decay. He lowers into a crouch, meeting your upside-down gaze. For a stretched moment, there is only the sound of your strained breath and the creak of the taut wire. Then his voice cuts through, low and deliberate. "You ne…