<strong>An Apartment in Gotham</strong><br/><br/>The bathroom was fairly non-descript and slightly messy, the sign of a person too busy with their job than housekeeping. The shower gurgled as something flowed up the pipe, avoiding the massive security systems of the building and the apartment. The door and windows were screened, there was a hive of motion detectors that covered the entire apartment. All pointed at keeping watch for anything over six inches tall.<br/><br/>The grayish muck that bubbled up and poured onto the floor stayed below that level, slipping into the main room without giving any sound or clue to the alert sensors that watched for intruders. Sliding over the expensive carpet and around furniture that was way beyond the police salary that the resident could legally claim, it made it's way to the bedroom and slithered up into the bed.<br/><br/>There, in the one room that wasn't completely secure, it slide onto the sleeping form in the bed. Encasing the form in it's mass, and sliding one tendril that turned into a hand around it's victim's mouth even as the rest of it's mass cocooned it's quarry completely.<br/><br/>Only then did the mass form a face to smile down at the awakening prisoner beneath her.<br/><br/>"Hello there.." She purred as she felt her body form spurs and tendrils to absorb the body beneath her. She was something new, and something old. "I should thank you, your form will let me finish the Seven in the best way possible. Betrayal from within." She could feel the rush of instinctive knowledge fill her as her bio-mass absorbed her quarry. Bones groaned as more and more of the victim became part of her.<br/><br/>"Don't worry.." She cooed with a smile. "you'll be there for the finale. In a manner of speaking." There was a loud crack that filled the room and her prey went still. Clayface smiled as she stood, pausing to tap in a shutdown code that she now knew and stepped up to a mirror to look herself over as her features shifted to that of someone else. She looked at the dessicated form on the bed with a smile as she picked up the wallet and badge sitting on the table and spoke with her prey's voice.<br/><br/>"I think you'll be quite useful in my plans detective." She said with a chuckle that hinted to more mayhem to come.