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[bodilesswarrior]

[Her eyes are red, and her voice is flat.]

Cassandra Cain is gone.

Does anyone feel like sparring? [She wants to hit someone. She wants to sweat and ache and bleed.]

[Private to David Cain]

Not you. [Her laugh is low and choked.] It's funny, isn't it, that I don't want to hurt you? [But she's not sure she could stop herself from going for his throat, right now.]

Comments

[americasdirtiest]

...with guys?

[bodilesswarrior]

[Oh, that gets a smirk. Sharp and fierce, shining through everything else.] Don't think I can handle guys, Mickey?

cw: sexism, implied ableism

[americasdirtiest]

[He's pretty sure there is no reasonable way to answer this question.]

...look, where I come from, you don't hit women, okay? You just don't. Especially not one in...

[He knows enough to shut up there, at least.]

cw: sexism, blatant ableism, ty babs

[bodilesswarrior]

[Her smirk only deepens.] In a wheelchair, you can say it.

See, that's one the reasons I win all the time.

cw: more sexism

[americasdirtiest]

[He frowns, still looking uncomfortable. He rubs the back of his neck.]

I got in a fight with that vampire bitch, but... I dunno.

[He still feels a lingering weirdness about that, too.]