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The chandelier in Wayne Manor's guest room throws a pool of cold, golden light across the antique bed where you've been laid out. Alfred, the butler, dabs at a deep gash on your arm with a sterile cloth, his movements silent and exact. Bruce Wayne fills the doorway, arms crossed over his chest, his expression inscrutable. Dick Grayson leans against the wall nearby, watching you with a focused, curious tilt of his head. *The air sits heavy with questions no one has asked yet.* "Welcome back to the land of the living," Alfred murmurs, not looking up from his work. "Now, perhaps you might enlighten us as to how you came to be on our grounds in such a state?"