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    Tim averts his eyes, fiddles with the sleeves of his hoodie. “Have you ever…noticed anything strange about me?”

    The silence extends for far too long. Tim chances a glance back up, only to find Duke struggling to keep his face in check.

    “Dude! I’m being serious here!”

    Duke bursts into laughter. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry! Just—I mean—you’re a strange guy!”

    “I know that! But I meant it like,” Tim gestures wildly around him, “in the energy, light sense. Is there anything unusual surrounding me?”

    The question causes Duke’s laughter to die down. “Yeah, dude, you got that whole Chaos Cloud thing going on. I thought you knew that.”

    Tim stills. “The what.”

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    Tim Drake begins to notice something strange, but the patterns keep shifting. In order to solve this strange mystery, he must reach out for help, face his suppressed emotions, and discover the power of his own Chaos!

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    The dark fire twists and rises, orienting on the Gotham walls. It seems to be aimed for a point right in front of the battlements where Bruce and Damian stand, defenseless while casting their own spell. The black flames blast forward, closing in on the closest thing to a family Tim has left.

    Like hell.

    Tim knows exactly what he needs to do. Just as the black, corrupt hellfire approaches the village walls, he drops into a dive, closing his wings tightly around his body to plummet faster. He’s got this—he’s so close—

    As he falls, what sounds strangely like grief-stricken cries of denial in his father’s and brother’s voices reach his ears, but that’s not possible. He must be mistaken. As the burning, excruciating balefire surrounds him, burning the very tears from his eyes, Tim’s heart twists in painful satisfaction. Now the others will be able to save Gotham and defeat Ra’s.

     

    I did it, Bruce. Even if you never really wanted me to be part of your family, I hope… I made you proud.

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    “Tim,” she says, hesitant in a way that she never is, not when it’s just the two of them, “About settling.”

     

    Thirteen is hardly unreasonable to be unsettled, but rare given their night activities, and Tim’s been thinking hard about what Hestia will choose.

     

    “I don’t think I want to settle,” she says quietly, interrupting his train of thought, “Maybe not ever.”

     

    “Okay,” replies Tim, stroking a careful finger over her soft brown snout, “Not if you don’t want to.”

     

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    Dæmon AU, the life and times of Tim Drake and his dæmon Hestia, before, during, and after Robin.

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    "Odysseus was clever, but his vanity and ego would have killed him long before his return home if not for his wife.”

    “Penelope?” Tim asked.

    “Exactly, child, Penelope," his nanny smiled. "The men of Ancient Greece would have you believe that she was idle, waiting for her husband to come home and solve her problems, but this is far from the truth. For routine and ritual are not powerless things. In pouring her love for her son and husband into her weaving, she called out to the goddesses Hestia and Hera. Despite never lifting a finger in violence herself, Penelope saved her family.”
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    Tim finds that there are more ways to protect the Bats than just Robin. A little magic never hurt anyone, after all.

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    Garfield Logan comes over for a visit!

    Please read the first installment of this series first. Otherwise it will make no sense!

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