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[anewlanguage]

[VIDEO;]

Every now and again I see people curious to learn some hand to hand--or hell, some weapons--fighting. I'm offering to teach, assuming you're up to the task. I'll tell you now, not everyone will be.


[PRIVATE VIDEO to BARBARA and IRIS]

[Admittedly he hesitated to put Barbara on the filter but logic wins out in the end.]

So what've you two put together about the Barge's engines? Need to bounce a few ideas at you.

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[bodilesswarrior]

Afraid so. [She'd shrug, but she doesn't need the extra pain.] Went out like a badass, though.

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[anewlanguage]

I'd expect no less. Who got you?

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[bodilesswarrior]

The Emperor's defences. I could have handled it as a Rix, probably, but once I was human again... [A slight, ginger sort of shrug.]

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[anewlanguage]

Crazy world he has. Makes me wonder what he was in such a rush to get back to. Hell, makes his disappointment more satisfying to watch.

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[bodilesswarrior]

It was his. [It's that simple, she thinks, and not simple at all.]

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[anewlanguage]

Y'know, the older I get the happier I am I never bonded emotionally to a place.

[Unlike Bruce Wayne, for example, who may as well be stitched into Gotham's cement.]

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[bodilesswarrior]

It's got its ups and downs. [Cain is like Iris; they're not bound to any one place, and they're happy for it.]

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[anewlanguage]

Might be a sense of justice that does it. I mean for all the corruption, you grew up surrounded by ethics, and your father's more a part of Gotham than its politicians ever were.

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[bodilesswarrior]

[Her eyes widen, a little, before she smiles.]

Very true.

...It's not a bad place to make a home, if someone wanted to give it a shot.

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[anewlanguage]

If I could go back without being a prisoner the rest of my life, I probably would. I'm not a one-town man but there is something about Gotham...

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[bodilesswarrior]

...If my Cass okayed it -

[She's quiet, for a moment.]

I could help.

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[anewlanguage]

...You think she might? I wouldn't set a foot in city limits if she didn't sign off on it, but-

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[bodilesswarrior]

I think, if she saw you'd changed...

Cassandra cares a lot about second chances. And she cares a lot about family.

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[anewlanguage]

I'm not her family, though. She told me that, almost the last time I saw her; and she was right. [He shrugs, faking it, but faking it well.]

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[bodilesswarrior]

And that's her choice. [She won't waver on that; what Cass wants, what she needs, matters more than anything else.] But maybe you could be, in time.

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[anewlanguage]

...Maybe. [Right now he's fighting down any hint of hope; if he let any in he'd never be able to think about life here on the Barge.] In the meantime, I've got a lot of work to do, eh?

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[bodilesswarrior]

You and me both.