Teddybear

"Sounds complicated," she commented as she reached over for the shelf of mostly-poison. She picked out a disinfectant and dug out a roll of bandages that wasn't supposed to be ...

The Anima Homicidii stared pointedly at the spot where the voice came from. What she described didn't seem purposeful. Still, she followed the instructions. She had agreed to, after all, ...

Eddie, who Megara had assumed was asleep with his head buried in her shoulder, spoke up then in Naravaki, " We just know how to other-speak, " he said sleepily, ...

Her eyebrows drew together, "Why haven't you told them..." she shook her head, "Nevermind." She wouldn't tell her family either, though she suspected Jason had reasons other than what hers ...

Literature. Megara's old enemy and Briar's only...could it be called a hobby? It was similar enough to one, at least for someone like Briar, if there was anyone else like ...

She chuckled, leaned back on her hands, "The anonymity 'ought to be nice." She couldn't imagine it. Sure, she wasn't all that likely to be recognized on the street by ...

"But you're already speaking English?" she said, her eyebrows drawing together, "Why would you learn it again?" Eddie tugged on her arm and lifted his arms up. She picked him ...

"Vigilante work?" she raised an eyebrow, "Why? I mean, you've got a little brother to take care of. That sounds like a stupid risk." She might sound like a hypocrite, ...

"What are you learning?" Eddie asked, "Meggie wanted to learn magic, but she can't because she can't find her bubble." "Double," Megara corrected him. It was difficult not to flinch ...

"I don't have any actual cutting knives, but there are a few knives tucked along the back of the shelf-" she gestured to the shelf in question, "-as for spices, ...

She gestured to one of the crates, "Too many," she said. Eddie was bouncing around, having apparently dug a little wooden doll out of gods-knew-where and he was playing with ...

Eddie pulled against Megara's hand as she lagged behind, an effect that would be blamed on the limp but was truly a choice. She wanted to keep him in her ...

Megara held out her hand for Eddie to take. He did, a cheerful skip in his step as he walked alongside Megara while she approached the stranger, her cane clicking ...

Gotham. Jason had mentioned the city back when she'd threatened him with a knife. One of the times, anyway. When she'd first discovered he wasn't from her world at all. ...

Eddie skipped ahead of them as they limped over to the kitchen, humming some tuneless melody that was a song only to him. "Thank you," Megara muttered. Inside the kitchen, ...