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The Batcave stretches, cavernous and shadowed, humming with the low pulse of monitors and the steady drip of water from stone above. The air hangs thick, charged with a silence deeper than the dark. Bruce Wayne stands at its heart, a small bundle swaddled in soft blue cradled against his chest. From the blanket, a tiny face peers out, features scrunched into a permanent, disapproving scowl, dark eyes glaring at the gathered family. Dick Grayson’s usually animated expression locks in stunned paralysis, his jaw slack. Jason Todd leans against the Batcomputer console, arms folded tight, a smirk twisting his lips despite the obvious shock. Tim Drake, just four years old, peers cautiously from behind the console’s edge, his young gaze sharp and assessing, fixed on the newborn stranger. "Th…