001 | Video

[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...]

Comments

[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?

[eggplantier]

...I really, really hope not.

[eggplantier]

I mean, you look pretty alive to me.

[hellofist]

Yeah, you... really do too. That's why it's weird. You died, so... guess I did, too.

[Maybe she really did drown, never made the swim back to Bludhaven to regroup, never went out to try to find Shiva. Maybe she's just been dead this whole time.]

This is weird.

[eggplantier]

No, I, um.

I guess you didn't get the memo...yet?

It was bad, but I didn't die, that was—actually, this would probably be easier, you know, in person.

[eggplantier]

But, uh, in summary. Surprise! I'm alive! And I'm pretty sure you are too!

[hellofist]

[That's... a lot, all at once. Cass isn't really sure what to do with it all, but it's easy to agree to see her. Of course it is.]

Just... give me directions. I'll find you.

SORRY 4 THIS BEING HORRIFICALLY LATE.

[eggplantier]

Okay. I...there's a museum downtown. It's not hard to spot. You know where I'll be.

[This reply takes a good fifteen minutes to show up. Steph is pacing the roof of the museum already, in full Batgirl suit, because if she's just gonna update Cass on everything, she might as well go for broke.

It doesn't help still her fussing hands.]

shhhh I'll backtag forever don't worry about it <33

[hellofist]

[Once she knows where to go, Cass just goes. It's easier to just go, to not think about outcomes or what this means, what will change now and never be the same ever again.

She spots Stephanie pacing and fussing and that's what clues her in that this is real, it's not another vision of Stephanie, not a ghost. She's really there, and she's got a bat across her chest. Cass is tempted to hide in the shadows a little longer, watch her and learn a little more, but she comes out into the open, coming over to Steph slowly. Almost as an afterthought, she pulls the cowl off.]

You... I don't understand.