Normally, he'd make Batman find him -- it was a gametestgame they'd played since Dick was a child -- but he needed facial expressions to get his point across right now and vacated the shadow behind a door across the hall.
"You wanted to know if I could salvage it," he said matter-of-factly. "This is the only thing I could think of. Either he stays with us now, and we'll go from there, or he goes now, has some time to think."
"Not used to your plans being this open-ended," Dick said, skeptically.
Batman very nearly said something about how Dick had led them to this point, but, luckily, rephrased at the last moment.
"Either you trust me or you don't," he said loftily, and started to steer him out.
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Normally, he'd make Batman find him -- it was a
gametestgame they'd played since Dick was a child -- but he needed facial expressions to get his point across right now and vacated the shadow behind a door across the hall."You wanted to know if I could salvage it," he said matter-of-factly. "This is the only thing I could think of. Either he stays with us now, and we'll go from there, or he goes now, has some time to think."
"Not used to your plans being this open-ended," Dick said, skeptically.
Batman very nearly said something about how Dick had led them to this point, but, luckily, rephrased at the last moment.
"Either you trust me or you don't," he said loftily, and started to steer him out.