[Gentle teasing. He reaches to push his fingers through her wet hair, and from there to the back of her neck. When he is walking that line between Bruce Wayne and Batman, every move he makes is like a tensile wire pulled taut. There's a sense of... restraint beneath every motion. It's as if gentleness in a learned thing for him, rather than innate.
Once upon a time, the reverse was true. But that little boy is dead.
He tugs her forward into a kiss under the spray of the shower.]
I'm not implying you can't handle it, Karrin. Putting people I care about in danger is always difficult for me.
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[Gentle teasing. He reaches to push his fingers through her wet hair, and from there to the back of her neck. When he is walking that line between Bruce Wayne and Batman, every move he makes is like a tensile wire pulled taut. There's a sense of... restraint beneath every motion. It's as if gentleness in a learned thing for him, rather than innate.
Once upon a time, the reverse was true. But that little boy is dead.
He tugs her forward into a kiss under the spray of the shower.]
I'm not implying you can't handle it, Karrin. Putting people I care about in danger is always difficult for me.