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So, I'm still new here so I thought I could ask. If you can't contact somebody and you can't find them around the island, does that mean they've gone back home? Or something's happened to them? Or something else entirely?

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Still looking back through what's up on the subject... do you want to talk about it?

It wasn't exactly my finest hour.

[Not an answer, exactly.]

[And Dick's still learning what such things mean, but... he'll assume that, no, Tim doesn't want to talk about it, which means he shouldn't push. So he'll keep the next question away from personal details, possibly.]

Those happen, now and again.

Is there anything I should know, in case it happens to me?

There's a lot. But I don't know if it will help.

A Shadow is the part of you you can't stand. So I'd say don't fight it and remember to accept it... but if you have a Shadow develop, by definition, you won't be able to help it.

[Paaause for a little while, as Dick thinks that over.]

[But, since it's Dick, it's not a long one.]

In which case, good thing B. isn't here.

It's occurred to me.

...You okay?

And here I thought he was just going to show with metaphorical guns blazing and take care of the situation.

I'm fine, nothing bad's happened to me.

You?

I'm... coping. Dealing with two of you was ... pretty strange, Big Brother. but a good kind of strange.

I'm not happy about him vanishing. But I've had enough time here to learn how to deal.

It's like everything we go through. You take it, you try to understand it, and you use it to make you better.

[He was so sad, Dick doesn't say. Because the other him was sad and himself both at the same time, and Dick isn't sure what could make him be that way. And he's not sure he wants to know, to be sure. It's just that Dick wishes he could have made it better, somehow.]

[You sound a lot like B, Dick still doesn't say. Not on the tail of 'good thing that B. isn't here.' But it's still true, it's the kind of advice that Bruce would have given him. It's sound, good advice, too, and Dick knows it. Still...]

[Instead, he goes the Dick Grayson way.]

Then I'll have to make it special for the two of us until you get to understand. Right?

That's how it usually works.

Glad we're on the same page.

I try to keep up.

So, is my phone running Vigilance, too?

[Asked as though he hasn't checked already.]

Yes. First day, remember? It's for networking with the other heroes here.

The fact that I can keep tabs on everyone running it is a side benefit.

Well done.

Though it won't be just you keeping tabs on everyone in... about four minutes.

B. gives bad habits, doesn't he.

My short explanation to everyone is "Gotham habits" or "Gotham life."

If you wanted admin access, all you had to do was ask.

Actually, if you can hack the system, I'll be very impressed. The coding was done by a guy from the 30th Century, and in five months I haven't been able to do anything but define basic parameters.

Huh. Adaptive. But, anyway, where'd be the fun in that?

I'll keep on working on it.

[Challenge. It has to be a challenge, and when did Dick ever back down from those?]

30th Century, huh? It's gonna be good practice, I'll see what I can use from the alien tech I've worked on to get to it.

Just in case I haven't mentioned it recently: it's great to be working with you again, Big Brother.

Well, that's something I like to hear or read! Don't think I'll focus on that and not keep an eye on what's happening around the island, though!

Wouldn't want you to. Wouldn't expect it, either.

[Dick... considers a question, but then decides not asking it over the question. It'll keep.]

[Instead he goes with,]

How often do things happen? Like the furious animals kind of things?

On average, there's a perceptible shift in reality every fourteen days, lasting an average of three point five days, and not counting chronic phenomena like the 'Dark Hour.'

Whoa, every other week? That's a lot.

[They... sort of covered the Dark Hour. As far as Dick will push, anyway.]

Are any of these - shifts good?

Sort of depends on your definition of good.

Some of them are good for some people. None are good universally.

...Though Christmas is always better than the rest.

Right. ~~I don't want to be here that long...~~

Hey, Tim? Do the doctors and other staff mix with us? Like in the cafe and such? Or do they always keep separate?

The support staff do, at least sometimes. The doctors, the scientists, the people who worked the Visitor's Center -- basically, anyone who might know anything -- they tend to stay sequestered. Even their kids are over at Corsair Academy rather than the public schools.

Any chance I might be able to sneak into the Academy?

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