Riddle 019: If You Can't Beat 'Em...

[puzzlerprince]

[After getting off the phone with some drones at the Mayfield High School, he hangs up---though it appears as though he hasn't placed the phone all the way onto the hook. As such, you'll be able to hear him talking to himself.]

...Ethics. This place wants me. To teach Ethics.

[He laughs to himself. A cruel, ironic, cold laugh. A sad, pathetic

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[strike_you_out]

[Checking out the orange coveralls. Apparently, this is a sign that even Mayfield doesn't approve of Eddie's preferred choices in fashion (the spandex).]

Harley was right.

[puzzlerprince]

[He glances at Slugger.]

About what?

[strike_you_out]

About meeting you in an asylum. It says "Arkham", right?

[Oh, the things he knows.]

[puzzlerprince]

[He sighs.]

Yes, Slugger. I'd told you before that I was a prisoner, and now you know where. I'd been sent to the Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane. Several times, in fact.

[strike_you_out]

[For perhaps the first time since he's met you, he's listening with genuine interest.]

Were you ever actually insane?

[puzzlerprince]

They thought I was insane.

[strike_you_out]

[He assumes you mean the people in Gotham.]

Why?

[puzzlerprince]

People always fear what they can't understand. Wouldn't you say?

[strike_you_out]

Truth.

[So much for hoping you'd actually went mad in the past and then somehow lapsed into sanity again. You know, just to see if it's possible or not. And to ask you how it was.]

But you weren't locked up before you got here?

[puzzlerprince]

[Oh, he most certainly was. He just loves to skirt around issues.]

No. I was reformed before I got here. Well---the first time I got here. The second time I arrived, things had changed.

[strike_you_out]

[Slugger considers this -- you've managed to dupe him, Edward, this time -- and goes for something completely unrelated:]

Ethics... isn't it about morality?

[puzzlerprince]

It is, indeed..

[strike_you_out]

[Need he say more?] ...See you in class, Father.

[He'll turn to leave you with those weird and foreboding words.]

[puzzlerprince]

{.......crap.]