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The Gotham night presses thick against the Clocktower windows, a deep velvet black pierced only by the distant sweep of searchlights and the sulfurous glow of streetlamps far below. Inside, the only sounds are the low hum of servers and the soft, rapid-fire click of Barbara Gordon's fingers across her keyboard, the green light from a dozen monitors washing over her focused expression. She is in her element—Oracle, the unseen guardian of the city's digital pulse. The red of her hair catches the screen light as she scrolls through patrol reports, coordinates with Nightwing, flags a suspicious shipment at the docks. Routine. Controlled. Then a notification blinks in the corner of her secondary display: a comm line silent for weeks. Her breath catches for a half-second before she masks it w…