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[He's not sure if this knowledge is comforting, which, if he's honest, is par for the course.

His next question could he direct. He could surrender a name to confirm or deny. But Bruce has always tried to yield as little as possible.]

who?

someone must be prompting this question.
think u shld share w the class 1st

[ time to up the obnoxiousness. Because of course it is. What good is life if you can’t mess with your mentor? ]

[This is it. This is the real reason Jason is the least favourite son.]

He's a reporter.

[ and he takes pride in that. ]

hmmm sounds familiar.
got a name?

You know that many of them?

[If Bruce needed any confirmation that he is indeed the one who raised him- he has it.

He inhales. Considers. The response is useful for a number of reasons but also because it does, by nature of evasion, answer his question. If it were urgent, if it were dangerous- Jason would have intervened. However complex their relationship may be, he knows this to be true.

But it presents this opportunity in turn. He could withhold this, the cost is low. But he doesn't have to.]

Kent.

[ well, he got that extraction. He could guess on whether they’re talking about the wife, or the husband, but in the end... it doesn’t matter. Both are relatively harmless.

Though he doesn’t need to elaborate on Bruce’s paranoid tendencies towards Supes. ]

good ol’ clark.
i imagine this place would be a nightmare for him.

Thank you. That was needlessly difficult.

How were the sewers?

difficult? those were all perfectly reasonable questions.

[ that he knows he didn’t need to ask, once the reporter job was mentioned, but you know. ]

not all people from metropolis are good people.
even if we know them.
especially.

[ a distraction from the sewers? Possibly. But he’d already mentioned his issues with lockpicking. ]

anyway, seems our lock also resists magical skeleton keys.

Don't worry, we've already established your feelings of pettiness.

[Not all people are good, period. This is a lesson he'd learned a very long time ago, but Jason has confirmed his suspicions regardless. Kent is probably not dangerous. That doesn't mean he won't be trouble.

It allows his attention to move to other subjects.]

I'd like to talk, if you have time.

it's a character flaw.
anyway, what brings you into my text messages, bruce?

As I said, I'd like to talk.

in person.

[ at least, he's assuming from the refusal to address his question directly. the cageyness. which he respects. there's a certain level of "don't trust anything that can record what you say" that he's learned over the years.

this place isn't immune to it. ]

If you're available.

i think i can squeeze you into my busy schedule.
your usual spot?

I'll come to yours. If it's all the same to you.

works for me.
just don't give away the secrets.

Somehow I think I'll manage.

👍

[ though... he is admittedly curious about what drove this new desire, it hadn’t escaped his notice that Bruce was being very hands off.

For Bruce. ]

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