TLV 3 - Video

[bodilesswarrior]

[Barbara's smile is a bit tight. She's trying not to think very hard on the last few days. The renewed grief of losing her first dad. Running and flipping and dancing.]

Everyone come through that flood okay?

[Private to Agent K]

[Her lips are curved in a wry, fond little smile.]

I've been called a lot of things, but 'sweet' usually isn't one of them.

[Private to Stephanie Brown]

It's official, I'd have liked you at any point in my life. [Yes, that is a thank you.]

[Private to Tim Drake]

I...wanted to thank you. For looking out for me.

[Both the warmth and hesitation fade as Oracle takes precedence.]

And I have a question.

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[looksfine]

[Oh! Aya recognizes the nice red-haired girl she had met as a "child".]

It was a very interesting experience.

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[bodilesswarrior]

[Barbara certainly can't miss the resemblance, and her grin is just about as delighted as it was then.]

That's one word for it. Was that your first time, being so little?

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[looksfine]

Yes.

I had not realized that organic children viewed their existences so differently.

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[bodilesswarrior]

[A quiet laugh.] We do, yeah. Experience shapes us quite a bit. ...That, and it takes a while for our brains to finish forming.

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[looksfine]

I came online with my programming fully developed at the optimal mental stage.

[Until she started evolving even further.]

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[bodilesswarrior]

[A wry smile.] Sometimes I wish humans worked that way.

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[looksfine]

You did not find enjoyment in regressing to a more youthful demeanor?

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[bodilesswarrior]

It wasn't - a great period of my life.

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[looksfine]

Why not?

[Aya asks simply because that's what she does. She means no harm.]

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[bodilesswarrior]

[Barbara doesn't mind, really; that's what she does, too, when it comes down to it. But she does switch the filter.]

My father had just died. [There's a distance to it, now; she can say it without her chest tightening, without her throat burning. But the grief is still there, worn and wistful.]

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[looksfine]

...oh.

[That would explain the changes in tone and facial expressions. Changes that Aya, as a child, had not readily picked up on because her attention had been elsewhere. Focused on far more trivial matters. Less aware.]

My condolences.

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[bodilesswarrior]

[A faint smile.]

Thank you.

It was...nice. To have a distraction.

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[looksfine]

Understandable.

Though I have learned that one can take a strange degree of comfort in reliving painful memories... [She thinks back to what Razer told her of getting to see Ilana 'one more time' in exchange for such pain] ...there are also times when it is better not to dwell on such emotions of suffering and loss.