It's been a year for him, and it shows, if you met him before. He's far more muscular from the training he's been doing and currently, the muscles are accentuated still further from hunger. But it's self-imposed this time, rather than just from being unable to afford food.
He's seen a lot, learnt a lot and is tired, of many things. And this means he
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"Working? I guess this place is good for it."
What with time tending to stop on the outside of the door and everything.
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He looks the man over and changes his mind immediately.
"Journalist?"
They all seem to have a certain look about them.
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"And a journalist seriously can't do both?"
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"That's what getting a job is about though, isn't it? Learning what's real outside of the theory."
He's never worked at a normal job, obviously, but what he's doing now certainly qualifies, in his mind, as a steep learning curve.
"Sounds like these young journalists could do with a newsman to teach them what's what. Do you have any working with you?"
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From what he understands of teaching, it keeps you on your toes and makes you stay at the top of your game. His dad told him that.
Not that this guy looks lazy. He's in a bar where he could rest and he's working. That says a lot.
"What paper do you work for? Or maybe I should ask what world you come from first."
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'What's your name?' he says, carefully, with a dry mouth.
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"My name's Bruce Wayne."
He knows the chances of anyone from Gotham not knowing his name are next to zero.
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