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[theknightshift]

[ Damian not knowing where the safehouse is exactly is the only advantage Bruce will allow himself. It's a lesson in deduction. And in learning how his father thinks. He's a smart kid. Bruce has no doubt Damian will piece it together without much trouble.

There's no signal, no warning that the race is starting. Bruce just moves - a sprint and running leap off the building. He fires his grappling line with a snap toward the next rooftop, momentum carrying him forward without stopping. He lands hard, tucking into a roll, and comes up already running toward the edge. Another leap. Another line. Another rooftop.

Keep up, Damian. ]

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( keeping up isn't an issue.

damian is small and fast, capable of flight in a way only a robin has ever been. bruce's footsteps fall hard when he lands, but damian is near-silent as he flits across the skyline. he's grown accustomed to following batman, and it shows in the way he takes advantage of bruce blazing his own trail forward: bruce swings to one rooftop to another, and damian leaps mere moments after him, fingers gripping onto the edge of bruce's cape just long enough to use his momentum to swing damian forward. he doesn't land on the roof, choosing to instead drop just before the edge so he can fire his own grapple to hit the edge of the building and - reels in the line whilst still holding onto it. the momentum wouldn't be enough for anyone larger, but he's light, agile, and it's enough to fling him toward the edge of the building. damian rolls with it, grinning wide because he's never felt more free than when he's flying.

it's obvious from the way he moves that damian may be new to being robin, but he's been picking up a significant amount from richard. the league taught efficiency, taught him not to waste energy, to make every movement count and damian - he's showing off even if it's nowhere near the extent one may have expected from the first robin. and even then, this isn't - the blend of robin and al ghul that damian learns to utilize, it's leaning significantly more heavily into richard's teachings than damian would have without his father watching.

he's trying a little too hard to impress, maybe. but he's still fast about it - it's not long at all before he's several yards ahead of bruce, eyes searching across empty buildings and facilities for what looks like an ideal place for a safe house. )

[theknightshift]

[ Using Bruce's momentum to his own advantage. Smart. Exactly the kind of ingenuity he's come to expect out of Damian. Find the advantage, take it, use it to put yourself in the better position. Bruce, however still had the upper hand, even as Damian sails past him with ease. The bright colors make him easy to track, and he shadows his son's path across the city. Falling and grappling and swinging between buildings with practiced precision.

His body still moves like he's aged ten years in reverse and when he lands on that injured knee it doesn't twinge at all. He could take that running leap without hesitation. But as he's falling, the thought returns - a flicker of unease about the treatment that's made it possible. A suspicion that digs a little deeper each night. He has no way of examining this closer. No Clark to confide in. No Alfred to ask those probing questions where Bruce might refuse to. He's alone in this, well and truly.

Damian is searching and Bruce already knows where to go. Bruce makes sure he's seen before melting into the shadows between the buildings.

The safehouse is tucked away on the topmost floor of a squat building between Big Belly Burger and the Daily Planet. If Damian's paying attention, he might catch the dark blur slip through a window - the wrong window of the wrong building. Bruce isn't giving the game up. Not yet. ]