<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/64/Young_Batman.jpg)</div><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: georgia;"><strong>Name:</strong> Batman (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=294841.msg14455706#msg14455706)<br/><strong>Date | Time:</strong> Present<br/><strong>Location:</strong> Earth probably<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Raven, Billy, Seline, Open<br/><strong>Note:</strong> more people, and more magical powers.</span><br/><hr/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"> "Sooooo looks like I missed out on some stuff, huh? And what'd you say about Darhk? That guys bad news in the Magical underworld. A few weeks ago I had to stop some guys I'm pretty sure were working for him from stealing Persephone's Shroud. Oh, I'm Billy by the way."<br/>".. No, the name didn't sound familiar. You can say.. I'm very sheltered. I wouldn't know anything, I admit.  I'm not from Earth, as you can tell. I'm.. from another world unlike Earth. I had to learn to control my abilities because.. it's what I have to do."<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div>"Not much, actually. Except for the fact this guy just dropped out of nowhere, it's been quiet." Bruce informed the new arrival who apparently knew Darhk, or at least someone by the same name. That would be a bizarre coincidence if Darhk was involved in some type of theft at the same time he was carrying out his attack on the League.<em>'It's probably a common enough name in magic circles.' </em>Bruce thought with a frown. "And what's Persephone's shroud?" Bruce knew what a shroud was, of course, but the name meant nothing to him. Obviously he had a LOT of reading to catch up on.  "And I'm John." Bruce lied about his identity once again as introductions were made.<br/><br/>But despite the fact the room was suddenly getting crowded, Bruce still found Raven the most interesting (and attractive) person in the room. Especially after she revealed. "You're an alien?" He asked, astounded at her casual revelation that she wasn't from earth. First magical beings, and now aliens. Bruce hadn't learned nearly as much in his travels as he had thought.<em>'I guess I've been sheltered as well.' </em>He thought. Something he hadn't categorized himself as since he'd left Gotham and turned his back on the Wayne name. He nodded a bit at her answer about controlling her abilities...that was one of the few things about her he thought he could relate to.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote">Quote</div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"> "Well, at least I'm not the only one who thinks it would be nice to get a bit more information. Did any of you also get offered? On blind faith? Or was it just me being stupid.<br/>.. I think everyone had different experiences when they arrived here. But no, you weren't stupid. Maybe careless, sure. The name Dr. Fate seems to ring a bell?"<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Well, it seemed Bruce wasn't the only one to get a brutal taste of Raven's honesty, but at least this time he managed not to laugh. It was one thing to do so when you were the recipient of an unfiltered opinion, but a different matter to laugh at someone else's expense. "Doctor Fate is the one I have a vague memory of talking to." Bruce reminded Raven, uncomfortably aware that she'd been staring at him, most likely trying to judge his reaction to her abilities. She didn't call him out for his feelings towards her, at least, so either his recitation of scientific formula had worked, or her experience was to alien to correctly analyze what was coming off of him.<br/><br/>But she would probably have no difficulty picking up the next emotions that came from her as he returned her steady gaze, but...<br/><br/>It was bright in the room, to put it mildly. Bright enough they didn't even seem to cast shadows as there were light sources all around. He wasn't an empath, but you didn't really have to be to sense how uncomfortable all the people in the room were making Raven. And Bruce didn't think the crowd was even complete yet as neither of the two new arrivals seemed to fir the profile of the others Raven had talked about. So he felt a wave of sympathy for Raven as he saw her try and curl up in a ball, almost as if she was trying to squeeze herself out of existence. And for a moment it appeared she was succeeding.<br/><br/><em> 'What the HELL?'</em>Bruce thought as he stared more intently at the girl, and it had nothing to do with him wondering if the alien was anatomically identical to a human. It had everything to do with the fact there was not only a shadow underneath the girl where it belonged, but around her?<br/><br/>That was an impressive trick, Bruce had to admit as he felt a wave of not only amazement, but envy. Darhk led a sect of the League known as the Society of Shadows, but their concealment techniques were strictly based on analyzing light sources, and the blind spots all humans had. Bruce was familiar with their techniques and had even managed to sneak up on Talia once using them, but by just sitting there Raven seemed to have abilities hat put the finest members of the Society to shame.