In The Darkness

[lesliethompkins]

The breeze that blew in through her window was warm. It swept past her face as she peered out from the second story of the clinic. As she'd done many times before, she leaned a hip on the old sill and clutched her coffee cup in both hands. Her eyes roamed the street below, taking stock of the neighborhood she called home, before they swung upward toward the evening sky. Dick, Tim, and Selina were out there somewhere she knew. Her thoughts naturally fell to Bruce.

With a heavy and mournful heart, she turned her back on the cityscape.

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[gotham-gargoyle.livejournal.com]

There's a shift in the wind - that's the only sign that something has changed, as a dark cowled figure now crouches in the window.

He speaks softly, so as not to startle her more than would be necessary.

"Leslie."