[Are you prepared for the most sympathetic of faces, Dick? Her parents might not have been murdered, but they'd cut off all ties with her -- it wasn't so different, and not much less traumatizing.

She listens and tries to understand it. There's even more questions she has now -- whether he's been doing this since he was Damian's age, whether -- Damian might be involved, given Dick's pseudo-fatherly relationship with him -- but she can't ask those questions yet. It would put him in a compromising position, after all.

When he does look at her, she doesn't so much say anything as shift herself closer, pulling him in for a hug. It seems like the right thing to do.]

Oh, Dick.

I suppose ... it doesn't have to make perfect sense to me, does it? You believe in what you say. That's just -- a hard way to grow up, carrying that sort of burden.