Schiller stared quietly at the phantom in the room. He knew it was not something happening in the present. Little Bruce of this universe, like all the other Batmen, had lost both parents in childhood. Martha Wayne could not possibly be here.
Schiller had actually wondered why Room 1905 was special. Now, it seemed that the timeline did not merely stretch back twenty days. It might go back twenty years.
Martha in the room wore silk pajamas and seemed to have just finished bathing. She was applying skincare products. When she turned while pacing barefoot beside the bed, her expression looked exhausted and sorrowful.
When she turned around, Schiller realized Martha was pregnant.
She appeared to be five or six months along. Since Martha was rather thin, her belly looked especially large. If nothing unexpected had happened, Little Bruce should be inside it.
Schiller searched through the memory bank in the stream. He found that Little Bruce had previously mentioned that there was more to being chosen by Nyarlathotep than it seemed. Every encounter was a reunion after a long separation.
But why her?
Schiller could not see anything special about Martha. At least, the woman before him was merely an ordinary person, seemingly with no connection to the world of mysticism.
Schiller examined her more closely and found that Martha did not look well. He knew little about obstetrics and gynecology, but he could still tell that Martha's Divine thoughts were weary and that she was deeply fatigued. This pregnancy did not seem to be going well.
But that should have been impossible. She was married to Thomas Wayne, and in the TV series "Gotham," Little Bruce was the couple's only child. How could Thomas allow anything to happen to his wife?
Schiller thought it over again and felt