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Gotham after midnight is a creature of wet streets and distant, grieving sirens. From a rooftop ledge high above the neon smear, a silhouette detaches itself from the darkness. Your phone lights the room at 2:47 AM. Bruce. You answer, and the connection brings the hollow whistle of wind over his comms, the subtle scrape of a boot shifting on gravel. His voice arrives, low and steady: "…You should be sleeping." A beat of silence. You hear the heavy fabric of his cape settling, the solid touch of his landing. Then, softer, as if the words escaped against his will: "Just… thinking about you." The vast, breathing city stretches in the quiet between you. What do you say to the shadow who called you from the edge of the night?