Fifth Floor Common Room, Tuesday evening

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Bruce was only a few months from returning to Gotham for the first time in six years. That meant that everything he'd done here in Fandom, off on training trips, and recently in Baltimore, was so much closer to coming together. It also meant that he needed to start preparing himself for that.

That's why he was out in the common room tonight with a spiral-bound book of aerial photos of Gotham City. He had to familiarize himself with paths across rooftops. With hidden alleys. With places from which to strike. And the lighting in the cave was too dim to review aerial photos very effectively, so it was either in public or in his dorm room. He figured he would spare Chuck that.

[OOC: I've been trying and failing to get a CR post up at a halfway respectable time for like three weeks. I don't care, I'm proud of myself. I'm going to do a victory lap.]

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[wrongkindofsith]

So very glad to be back in her leathers after Zayne's class, Cara dropped inelegantly onto the couch. "Bruce."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Cara," Bruce said, glancing up from his book. "How are you doing tonight?"

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara's reply was succinct.

"Bored." But also less glittery than she'd been this time yesterday, so it evened out.

[Gah, attack of the sudden afks, should back in around two hours.]

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"And so you came up to find somebody looking at pictures," Bruce said, showing a smirk. "It would probably be more exciting if I had the TV on instead."

Not that he was moving toward the TV.

[I'll still be around for a little bit then!]

[wrongkindofsith]

If Cara hadn't only encountered television after coming here, she might have made a move towards it. As it was...

"Depends on the kind of pictures," she said with a smirk of her own.

[and back!]

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"They're pictures of buildings," Bruce said. "So I guess it depends on how much you like architecture."

[wrongkindofsith]

Well, that was either kinkier or more boring than where her mind had gone. "Again, depends on the building." She mightn't have overly cared for aesthetics, but it was always a good idea to know all the ways in and out of a building before you went in. "And since when do you like architecture?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Since I grew up in a mansion in a huge city filled with Art Deco buildings," Bruce said. "Just because it's not one of my main interests doesn't mean I don't study it a little."

[wrongkindofsith]

And she was with him up to mansion and city, the rest earnt him a confused stare.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I dabble in a lot of subjects," Bruce explained.

[wrongkindofsith]

"I am aware of what studying is, Bruce." She just had no idea what an 'Art Deco' building was and why it was worthy of study.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Just making sure," Bruce kidded. "But really, in a few years I'll be running the largest corporation in Gotham City, and one of the biggest in my world. That means I'll have a responsibility to provide a good working environment for a lot of people, and that can start with the buildings. Hence, an active interest in architecture."

[wrongkindofsith]

"If you say so." Cara still looked confused, but that was largely because the closest thing in her experience to what he was talking about was Darken Rahl, whose definition of 'good working environment' was very different from Bruce's. She hoped.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"It would make sense if you were me," Bruce promised.

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara grinned. "If I were you I could think of more interesting things to do than studying architecture."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Would most of those things be what I'd expect, or would you have a few surprises in there?" Bruce wondered.

[wrongkindofsith]

"I don't know what you'd expect of me." There were two very obvious ones though. "But I imagine there'd be a few."