"Trust me, I'm fully aware of the hole he's dug himself into," she replied, the stack of research on her desk a testament to the scandal and intrigue that was building around The Batman. It was one of the reasons she'd discovered his secret in the first place.

"That's not really your decision to make, Bruce." She pulled a stack of old newspapers from a pile on the floor, laying them out on her desk for him. Headlines on Superman's rise to the spotlight in Metropolis, Oliver Queen's outing as the Green Arrow, even a few articles on a Woman of Wonder in Washington.

"I'm surrounded by this stuff as it is. Hell, if I'm not dangling off a skyscraper because of it once a month, something's gone wrong. So if that's your excuse for cutting us short, you'll have to come up with a new one."