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Who: Bruce Wayne and You, also Batman and you!
What: Catch-All for the month of October.
Where: Outside Wechester Enterprises, around the city, rooftops
When: Batman portions are night! Otherwise any time for the others!

OCTOBER 5TH ~ THE GREENS.
The sudden change of landscape made Bruce Wayne even more paranoid and unsure of the area they were in. Beachville was nice - almost like a summer paradise. However, Wechester City reminded him more of his own home. Gotham City. He had to wonder if there were corrupt cops, mobsters running the city, and a gallery of rogues that seemed insane to anyone who didn't know the city. He hoped not.

However... Wechester Enterprises had caught his attention ever since it appeared. It reminded him of his own multi-billion dollar company back home. He needed a job and running his own company seemed like a good enough resume to get in. It would let him poke around and see what was going on inside the company that just appeared seemingly over night. Maybe even find some clues to why these fluxes and everything happened.

For now though, he is sitting on a park bench, enjoying the crisp weather. With one cup from Starkbucks of course.

OCTOBER WHENEVER ~ THE ROOFTOPS OF THE CITY.
It took evidence to show that he had to don the Suit. Enough shady dealings inside the company to make him warrant potentially needing to go in as the Bat. Even now he isn't too sure that he needed to go in as the Bat. Instead he is simply staking out on rooftops near by. Enough to get the idea of the Bat roaming around. If Wechester Cityt was like Gotham... then there was a chance they'd need the Bat.

Otherwise he'd just simply go back to the shadows and be out when needed. Maybe this was something like the White Portuguese... then maybe it only called for the real mask. Bruce Wayne.

OCTOBER WHENEVER ~ PICK IT!
(Have an idea we've plotted out? Go ahead and hit me up here!)

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"I am, I... am a bit lost though," she knew her way home when it was Beachville, but this? The entire city was... too much.

"I've never been in a city like this before... I'm glad I somehow found my way to the park, though."

He gave her a small smile before standing up. He folded his coat over, making sure to button it comfortably. A few steps forward he was beside her.

"I think I might be able to help with that." Bruce nodded to the city. "Gotham is a bit like this city."

"I've never even been to London, but I'm told you can't even see the sky at the top of the tallest building..." Although, Victorian London was such a case from industrialization and pollution, though Alice didn't know that. "This feels a bit like that..." she instinctively reached up to hold his hand.

"I'm glad I found you."

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"Hm. You can see the sky of Gotham just fine. Though there are plenty of skyscrapers like this." He gestures to one of them.

Bruce pauses at the fact she's grabbed his hand. It takes him a moment to ease in to it, but he holds her hand back securely. "Do you not know many people here?"

"Skyscrapers... a very fine word for them. They certainly look like they do," she gave his hand a little squeeze.

"I don't know, what do you consider 'many people,' Mr. Wayne? Because if it means more than 10, than no, I don't, but if it should mean less than that, I would say I do know a good many. But many does feel like it should be at least a dozen or so."

He supposes they do. Bruce hadn't stopped to think about it.

"Ten sounds like a good number to start with." Bruce smiles at her. Then again, she's a bit young to know that many. "None of them walked you to school?"

"Oh, walked to school, yes. But two of them had detention, and I didn't want to bother Mr. Stark at work. Shinichi is my age and I didn't know who else to ask to walk me home."

He hums slightly. "That does make things a little difficult." A pause. "What do you know about Mr. Stark?"

"What do you mean, Mr. Wayne? That's a very big question, that's like asking, what do you know about a city? What is it you would like to know, that would be easier to answer if you have an idea of what you want me to say."

She's a clever girl. That smile on his face proves it. "I just wonder what kind of person he is. There's... similarities between us. Call me curious is all."

"Oh, there are many similarities, I should think! But I've not hugged you yet, I do not know how warm your hugs are. But Mr. Stark is very kind, and very patient! Like you are as well! He's also very smart as you are. You've not got a beard, though, and I've not heard your taste in music. Mr. Stark likes very loud music."

"Hugs." Bruce raises his eyebrow. That's something he didn't expect. Then again, Alice is young and innocent. That is something she'd look for. "It usually depends on my company. Generally I don't listen to music."

"Well, am I company you would hug?" don't judge, she likes hugs. "Oh, I think you would be much happier if you did, I've smiled at all sorts of songs!"

"If the occasion called for it." Bruce offers her a gentle smile.

She is the kind of person he fights for. The ones who are innocent, the ones who can't necessarily fight for themselves. It took a man from another planet to beat that memory to the surface. It had been buried deep underneath the pain and the agony of his own personal losses. That loss spiraled him, making him wonder if the fight was worth it, if he really was better than the criminals he fought. Maybe he wasn't. Maybe he was just like them -- but he couldn't stop being the Bat. Bruce is the Bat more than he ever is Bruce Wayne.

Batman will only stop existing when he's dead.

"I find music can be distracting to what I'm working on." He answers easily, his face perfectly concealing any thoughts is having. "Generally I listen to falling water."

"Would this be an occasion that called for it?" in other words, she wants a hug, Bruce.

"Oh, then you must get so much done when it is raining."

Bruce looks down at her with an eyebrow raised. "Let's get you home first."

He'd rather he be safe at home and see her off with a hug then just drop one in the middle of the street. Alice doesn't need those kind of looks.

"I have a water feature in my office back home."

A water feature meaning a waterfall in his cave.

"That should be soon, then, it's not a terribly far walk from school, I do remember that much."

She tilted her head.

"A water... feature? Do you mean a fountain?"

"Something like a fountain. But it spanned the whole wall." Bruce motions for her to lead the way. Or, at least take him in the right direction. "I had to make sure to put a lot of glass up so it didn't damage any of the computer systems."

.... She looked at him and then frowned.

"I do know what a waterfall is, Mr. Wayne." Honestly. "You could have just said it's a waterfall."

"It's not exactly a waterfall." Bruce shrugs--it really is. But, he needs to make sure he doesn't give details that might suggest he works in a very large cave under a lake. "Not a real one anyways."

"Fake ones are certainly made," she offered as she made a wide gesture to the city as a whole. "If all of THIS can be made, goodness, if a PALACE can be made, then whoever is to say someone couldn't have an indoor waterfall? I daresay that would be easy."

He smiles at that. "You haven't seen a glass museum yet, have you?"

Bruce imagines it'd be something she'd enjoy. The way things can be contorted into shapes, and the colors? It sounds right up her curiosity isle.

"It all must be very fragile, a glass museum, you must not be allowed to wear heeled shoes, only flats lest you crack the floor as you walk. I would like to see it. Do they have one here? Could we see it together? Should I wear bedroom slippers when we go?"

"It's more the decorations are glass. The floors tend to be concrete or wood still." Bruce really is amazed sometimes how her imagination just carries her away. "We should see if they have one."

"Perhaps there is a pamphlet or magazine of interesting places in the city!" Alice, being from her era, does not immediately thing to Google... well... anything on her phone.