"I'm sure you of all people understand how boring life can be when you're on the top of the world," he says mildly, dry. But still. He stepped onto this path, and he continues without issue, "Three years ago, Gotham was destroyed by a cataclysm. One of the worst earthquakes in history. I'd enlisted a scientist to monitor the situation, but she was... too late to warn my city."

There's a sense of ownership to the way he says my city. And in a way, it's far more serious than anything he's said to Dorian before.

"They spent a year on a government-mandated lock-down. No supplies brought in, no people allowed out. But Gothamites always have been a rather tough breed."