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[bodilesswarrior]

[Barbara is sitting on her couch, Jonesy curled up on her lap. Her communicator is carefully angled away from her control centre.

She starts off with a wry wave.] If you can see this, you've gotten pulled into a space prison's telecommunications network. As far as I can tell, it won't affect your systems any, so don't worry.

[Her smile deepens.] And if you're from Gotham, I know damn well this isn't the strangest thing that's happened to you this week.

((Fourth wall! GO TO TOWN.))

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[bodilesswarrior]

Of course. [It's a natural response, instinct, chased by a rueful smile.]

[Private to Dean]

[Now, well, she just looks sad.]

He reminds me of Bruce, when he first got here. He's given up, Dean.

[ Private ]

[surfaceshine]

[Of course, she says, like it's a foregone conclusion. Which normally it would have been, at least until she said it.

Now, the look he gives her is extremely sober, a little uncomfortably guilty, because after all. It's still him, isn't it?]

That's not anyone's fault but his. You know that, right?