[ The tour guide was Deathstroke. He didn't have to reach for the knowledge. How could anyone forget such a persistent pain in everyone's collective neck, knee, chest, eye, heart... damn, but Tim does not like that man. He doesn't hide it either, pulling a face that is at best sour lemons (at worst, a simmering undercurrent of hatred). ]
The tour guide sucked when I was there too.
[ He falls away abruptly, having changed his mind on continuing at the last moment. He was going to make some oblique reference to hidden depths or something like that, but Bart hadn't met Joseph Wilson yet. It wouldn't matter that he had been redeemed, and one revelation would lead to more, most of them unpleasant.
And Tim wants to keep Bart in his present as much as possible. That bright, shiny time when they were finally Titans, and they were going to be better than any that had come before.
But he can read Bart; he's always been fairly good at it. Bart moves when he's trying to fill time. Tim has always wondered if his friend's thoughts run too quickly, if the constant need for distraction was just a way to let the thoughts percolate properly. Speedster, but still human. Bart needed time to cope as much as anyone did, especially when confronting his own mortality. ]
Our stupid tour guide caused a huge accident. There was this huge BANG! and I thought this other kid had gotten seriously injured, but 15 minutes later, he was fine. The tour guide was still stupid. Even his name was stupid - who names their kid Slade?
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The tour guide sucked when I was there too.
[ He falls away abruptly, having changed his mind on continuing at the last moment. He was going to make some oblique reference to hidden depths or something like that, but Bart hadn't met Joseph Wilson yet. It wouldn't matter that he had been redeemed, and one revelation would lead to more, most of them unpleasant.
And Tim wants to keep Bart in his present as much as possible. That bright, shiny time when they were finally Titans, and they were going to be better than any that had come before.
But he can read Bart; he's always been fairly good at it. Bart moves when he's trying to fill time. Tim has always wondered if his friend's thoughts run too quickly, if the constant need for distraction was just a way to let the thoughts percolate properly. Speedster, but still human. Bart needed time to cope as much as anyone did, especially when confronting his own mortality. ]
Our stupid tour guide caused a huge accident. There was this huge BANG! and I thought this other kid had gotten seriously injured, but 15 minutes later, he was fine. The tour guide was still stupid. Even his name was stupid - who names their kid Slade?
[ You're going to be okay, Bart. ]