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Mar. 18th, 2020 01:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
At some point, his eyes had adjusted to the alien purple-green glow of the Bio-ship interior, the squishy nature of what passed for upholstery, and his ears popping every four minutes or so at cruising altitude.
"You did good work out there," he said suddenly, more to break the silence than to tell her things she should already know. It wasn't her first dance today, but it was still among the dress rehearsals. They were still figuring out the blocking, how she played against the rest of the cast, but he had nothing but positive things for her right now.
"That reaction time when Cheshire went for her target was spectacular," and a showman didn't use that word lightly. The monitors and the windows were beginning to show Will's neighborhood and Nightwing gently urged the Bio-ship to slow her roll.
"I couldn't have equaled it." He might have been able to overpower Artemis' sister nowadays, if given a head start, the element of surprise, and a snowball's chance in hell, but actually managing to neutralize her before... well. Before.
"Bringing you on this mission was the right choice, maybe the only choice. I'm lucky Will found someone else to babysit!"
"You did good work out there," he said suddenly, more to break the silence than to tell her things she should already know. It wasn't her first dance today, but it was still among the dress rehearsals. They were still figuring out the blocking, how she played against the rest of the cast, but he had nothing but positive things for her right now.
"That reaction time when Cheshire went for her target was spectacular," and a showman didn't use that word lightly. The monitors and the windows were beginning to show Will's neighborhood and Nightwing gently urged the Bio-ship to slow her roll.
"I couldn't have equaled it." He might have been able to overpower Artemis' sister nowadays, if given a head start, the element of surprise, and a snowball's chance in hell, but actually managing to neutralize her before... well. Before.
"Bringing you on this mission was the right choice, maybe the only choice. I'm lucky Will found someone else to babysit!"