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✦ 001 ✦ [video]

[As the feed turns on, one may notice the camera pointed directly at an open window, where some might recognize a familiar face, and others, a slightly less familiar (and noticeably younger) face. Sitting on a large tree branch just outside her room. Because why not?]

[14-year-old Zatanna looks oddly at peace for the moment, back leans against the rough bark, a few pieces peppering the shoulders of her black jacket blazer. One leg dangles off the edge, the other bent at the knee. She has a half smile on her face, and her eyes continue to casually take in her surroundings, even as she addresses the Network.]

I'll admit...definitely not what I was expecting.

[Implying that she's somehow unsurprised by her current limbo status. Like she knew something like this would happen, even if there was no way she could've predicted exactly what. Knew and accepted it. For now.]

Can't really complain, though. I'd take a giant tree house over an eternity in empty helmet space any day.

Name's Zatanna, by the way. Zatanna Zatara.

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Of course not, Robin.

I said we should be careful, didn't I?

[/this face]

We'd better be, or Batman will never let us go out alone again.

He's here too, but... he's not the one from our world, if that makes sense.

[He says it perfectly casually, but you'd better believe it bothers him.]

Wait...say that again.

[She doesn't catch the fact that it bothers him quite yet, caught off-guard by the declaration itself. No matter how casual he attempted to deliver it.]

He's one of the people who expect you to be older. Closer to his age, actually. He expected me to be older, like in my twenties.

He was the one who told me about the Titans and explained the alternate universes thing to me.

[Yeah that was quite a conversation.]

I'm close to Batman's age? Weird.

What else did he tell you?

Just... Robin stuff. [That he really doesn't want to talk about.]

And that there are fifty-two parallel worlds, minimum.

Right.

[Robin stuff = secrets. Things she wasn't allowed to know. Okay, then. Moving on....]

Oh, is that all? So, theoretically, we could meet fifty-one other versions of ourselves at some point?

As long as we exist in each world, yeah.

[There's also another Dick Grayson here but he's not sure he really wants to go that route right now so.]

There's another "Robin" here. Not me, but sort of a successor of mine in his world.

[She'd have to meet the Dick Grayson from her world first.]

You're not Robin anymore in that world?

[And she very well might! Just not right now.]

Apparently I quit and went off on my own. I'm, uh, he's Batman-- a Batman-- now.

Oh, wow.

[Part of her's impressed. But the other part of her is curious about his reaction to all this.]

I can't tell. Is...this a good or bad thing?

Honestly? I don't know.

[Everything here has brought out some big, complicated feelings. Leaving the dynamic duo, striking out on his own, being Batman. That and all of the parallel dimension stuff and suddenly having a family and people who know him. It's weird.]

Do you...want to talk about it?

[She asks hesitantly, unsure how receptive he would be. They were friends, sure. And she had confided in him. But that didn't change the fact that there was still so much she didn't know. Or how much he'd be willing to tell a girl he'd only met a month prior, considering the Batman code of secrecy that kept the team from even knowing his real name.]

[Still...she had to extend the offer. Even if he turned her down.]

[He smiles a little. He appreciates the offer, but he's really not sure how he feels about a lot of things. Besides, shouldn't she be more worried about herself?]

No, but thanks.

Alright.

[She nods once, her attention returning to the floor. Not particular upset--she'd pretty much expected it, after all. But that left them with a rare, awkward gap of silence to fill.]

[And fill it he will.]

So, how are you liking the treehouse so far?

[A shrug]

It's okay, I guess.

I've never had such a climbable tree outside my window before. Manhatten was always a bit short on those, y'know?

I think Keeliai has a lot of things Manhattan is short on.

I take it you haven't wandered around the other sectors yet?

I browsed. While I was waiting for them to finish setting things up for me.

Though this one guy told me that the whole turtle looks amazing at night. That it even glows. That sounds like something worth seeing for myself.

It's pretty cool. If you like light shows, the Fire sector is pretty much one 24/7.

Now, when you say "light shows', do you mean actual lights? Or do they take the whole "Fire Sector" thing literally?

The entire sector isn't on fire, but they always have fires burning. Fires that somehow don't burn you.

Almost sounds like magic.

Maybe it is. Just don't try telling KF that.

We're essentially in limbo, and he's still trying to explain the unexplainable?