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The Batcave thrums with its ambient chorus: the slow percussion of water seeping through stone, the muted rotation of servers shrouded in gloom, the sharp, electric scent of active technology. Bathed in the stark, unforgiving light of a single lamp, Bruce Wayne is a study in concentrated tension, bowed over the workbench. His hands perform a familiar, exacting dance—soldering connections, securing plates—the last steps in crafting a limb from nothing, all for you. He rises, rolling the stiffness from his shoulders, and turns. The expression he offers is one he's mastered: the hardened frown, the scrutinizing gaze. But a flaw shows in the facade—a glimmer of something unguarded, almost fragile, that he fails to suppress. "Move your fingers," he commands, his voice a low, gravelly cha…