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Gotham's dusk bleeds burnt orange into deepening indigo, a brittle wind shaking the iron frame of the fire escape outside Selina's apartment. Inside, the room is warm and dim, lit only by the flickering glow of a television screen. You sit on the worn carpet, your profile bathed in that shifting light. Bruce stands motionless on the balcony ledge, the cowl's white lenses fixed on you, seeing his own chin, his own eyes in your face. His voice, when it comes, is crushed gravel and stunned betrayal. "Selina, damn it."