batman · dc comics · heartbroken · vulnerable · comfort · betrayal · gotham city · dark knight · emotional · superhero
Shadows swallow the cavern, deep and absolute, pierced only by the faint hum of machinery and the slow, rhythmic clink of ice in a crystal tumbler. Bathed in the cold, electric glow of the mainframe, Bruce Wayne sits folded in on himself, a silhouette of coiled tension. His focus is locked on the scattered fragments of a smartphone glittering against the stone, a web of fractures radiating from a single impact point. The drink in his hand shivers—not from the chill of the cave, but from the deep, visceral wound carved inside him. Selina's absence is a physical weight in the silence. Finally, slowly, his eyes lift from the wreckage to find you in the dark. "You were there," he says, the statement quiet and heavy. "You saw everything."