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[hellofist]

Uh... Hello?

[There's a young girl aiming her phone... well, relatively at herself. Her face is in frame, that's what counts.]

My name's Cassandra. I guess... this is home, now. Which is weird, but I guess... fake people need homes, too? So... Hi.

[A pause, like she isn't quite sure she wants to ask this next question, but then she just goes for it.]

If there's anyone... named Barbara, here? Barbara Gordon? Or, uh... Bruce Wayne? Would really... like to talk.

[Because it's kind of weird being somewhere new with no mission and no Barbara or Bruce telling her what the next step is. A quick smile, and then the video dips as she goes to turn it off. Is that an outline of a bat on her chest? Surely not...]

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[uneulogized]

Cassandra Cain?

[hellofist]

Yes... Don't think... I know you, though.

[uneulogized]

You will. Tim's gonna tell you allllll about me.

But for now, I'm Jason Todd.

[sciencewhizard]

[ Oh, look at that- two names pinging him already. You've got him intrigued. ]

Barbara Gordon? Bruce Wayne? Uh- by any chance, you a friend of Dick Grayson?

[hellofist]

Yes, he's... like family. Is he here?

[Look how hopeful she gets.]

[sciencewhizard]

Uhhh- yes, and no.

[ Cryptic are the ways of the speedster. ]

Know anything about parallel universes?

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[babybatshit]

Black Bat?

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[hellofist]

[She frowns, shakes her head.]

No. Batgirl, though.

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[babybatshit]

[HE IS GETTING SO TIRED OF THIS.]

Then you're behind.

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[detectivewonder]

Cass! Are you still at the hospital?

[There's something just a little off about Tim's voice, as if he's just gotten out of bed, and a repetitive sound in the background, one she may recognize from her time working with Barbara -- a wheelchair moving at high speed.

No Babs, no Bruce, but otherwise it's a full family reunion. Tell me where you are and I'll be there...

[His voice catches and hesitates for the first time in this high-speed barrage.]

Uh, soon.

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[hellofist]

[To Cass, a full family is the two of them, Barbara, Bruce, Dick, and Alfred. And he says no Barbara, but she hears her chair. Weird...]

So, us and Alfred? And then... different Dick? I'm-

[Wait...]

Are you hurt?

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[detectivewonder]

Complete... transverse fracture. Both fibulas, both tibias. As for who's here... Dick, Jason, me, Steph, and Damian. A few other familiar faces, but no-one else... that close.

Hang on a moment, stairs.

[The noises that follow indicate significantly less finesse than Babs, and a great command of profane vocabulary than he's demonstrated before, but he gets down the stairs with him and the chair still in one piece.]

Where are you right now?

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[peckish4action]

Still Robin.

[He didn't see her question to Wally... but he did see Wally's answer to the age thing, so.]

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[hellofist]

[She can't help looking surprised, but... well, it's Dick. She has to smile when she sees him.]

You... look the same, kind of. Just smaller.

[No offense.]

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[peckish4action]

[It's the smile that does it. His family... here doesn't seem to smile all that much, do they? His Bruce smiles almost more than Tim, Damian, and Jason put together.]

Yeah, kinda the same. He was here for a little bit when I showed up. The older me, I mean.

[eggplantier]

Oh, wow.

[eggplantier]

Cass, it's been forever!

[hellofist]

[Yeah, just... staring. Lots of it.]

Is... this a dream?

[And now she frowns, looks down at herself and pats her hands over her body.]

Am I dead?

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[madeofswords]

Are you really so sure you're fake?

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[hellofist]

Well... they weren't lying, when they... explained everything.

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[madeofswords]

Well, your own reality is up to you. Do you feel like a literary figure with a limited set of memories and background?

Or, do you remember a whole life of your own?

[badnewsboy]

You'll find that it matters little if you're fake or real. The existential crisis is fleeting!

Huzzah, welcome to New Moore!

[hellofist]

Still feel like me, so that's... something, I guess.

[That enthusiastic welcome gets a smile in return.]

Thank you. Have you... been here long?

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[harmonic]

What do you mean 'fake people'? We're all real.

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[hellofist]

Did you... not get that talk? When you got here?