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[giveaway]

( A sleepy Steph starts up the video, yawning a little before she takes her thumb off the camera to reveal herself. She's not messy or sloppy or anything like that, just yawning. Her voice is very matter-of-fact and she nods occasionally as she speaks to confirm how right her point is. )

Y'know I think this place needs to give newbies a warmer welcome. Hotels give you like coffee and maybe a fruit basket? We need that, waiting in our suite for us. Maybe with a cute message card saying something like, "Welcome to our city, and oh, remember you're stuck here! Have a mocha on us!" It's common courtesy to give folks some kind of compensation.

( She pauses. She's forgetting something, isn't she... Oh, right! )

Oh yeah, I'm Stephanie. Or Steph. Probably not Stephie. ( Bad memories associated with that one. )  Aaaand I really want a mocha. That actually sounds really good right now. Nice to meet you and especially nice to meet you if you know about a Turtlebucks close to the Wood Sector.

( Confirm her secret identity in this place as an ordinary and hilarious college student? Check. She honestly is seriously thinking about her situation, but for now she doesn't want that to show through as Stephanie Brown. Gotta be safe and all. )

I think that's everything? Laters.

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[cowled]

[He wants to snarl no. She has to earn the damned suit all over again, it's not hers, it belongs to the girl he knew for eight months, whom he'd failed so badly in Gotham--

He has to remind himself to breathe. Finally,]

I have one of the Batgirl-issue uniforms. You'll get it tomorrow, if you're good enough.

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[giveaway]

( In her mind, she rolls her eyes. She slaps him again. Yells. Tells him she doesn't have to prove herself to him anymore. That he doesn't determine whether she's "good enough" or not.

But she only nods. )

That's all then.

( And that's your cue to leave, Bruce. )

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[cowled]

[And leave he does, though there's a... longer period of hesitation than usual between the time that he turns to go and the time that he disappears effortlessly through the window.]