Schiller first turned his gaze to Bruce. Bruce looked toward the pool of blood hidden in the darkness, his thoughts returning to the previous night.
At Wayne Manor that night, Bruce had been looking through some materials in the library. Although he had learned upon returning from Metropolis that his butler was no ordinary man, he still needed to investigate agents, the Philby List, the Soviet Union, and those old affairs from years ago.
But just then, a burst of loud noise came from upstairs. Bruce helplessly closed his book, rubbed his forehead, and stood up to head upstairs.
In the upstairs room, Aisha was learning to speak with Dick and Alfred. She could already babble in different tones and even say English words with fewer than two syllables.
But everyone knew that every child turned into a living loudspeaker while learning language. Speaking loudly seemed to help them build confidence in language, so they shouted as loudly as they possibly could.
They also loved repetition, as if they could discover the rules of language through saying the same thing again and again. Loudness combined with repetition had turned Aisha into a human alarm, and Bruce even felt he could develop a Batcave alarm system based on Aisha's cries.
Although the Batcave was more than half the city away from Wayne Manor, as long as it went off over there, Bruce would definitely hear it.
This was different from crying. When Aisha cried, Bruce and Selene would do their best to soothe her, and once she had cried herself out, she would naturally go to sleep. But learning language was serious business. Seeing Alfred's approving expression, Bruce knew there was no room for him to say anything.
Besides, language lessons had required hours. They would not stop until she had