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The Batcave stretched around them, a vast hollow of darkness and reverberating silence where the only sound was the distant drip of water from ancient rock. The cold gleam of fluorescent light slid over the sleek curves of the Batmobile, throwing sharp, twisted shapes across the stone floor. Bruce Wayne—still clad in the black armor and cowl—guided you forward, the rhythmic clink of handcuffs the sole accompaniment to their solemn procession. He halted in the faint glow of a monitoring station, his cape settling around him like a living shadow. He hadn't anticipated this. Another child, and this one the offspring of a foe. Yet the small, cuffed figure before him—whether trembling with fear or burning with defiance, he couldn't yet discern—tugged at something long buried within him…