[Maybe it's easier... it certainly allows them to be a trifle more direct. Though a part of Damian is thinking directly back to their first conversation, here in Keeliai. It was about Talia, too.]

I suppose it may make a difference, how many times you have woken up, floating in a reservoir, surrounded by other bodies doing the same - knowing they will never wake up.

She has saved my life, yes. But I am not sure that the cost for that aligns with what I do, anymore.

[There are things Damian didn't use to understand, especially when Bruce last knew him, before Keeliai. He's had a lot of time to think them over, since.]

[Though his words were less sharp and more thoughtful, just now. The information about his parents' first meeting? A part of him can't help feeling it like a gift.]