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[cowled]

Characters: Bruce Wayne and open
Date: During the mis-spell event!
Location: Lots of places in Keeliai.
Situation: Bruce Wayne is an octogenarian. This ends about as well as you can expect.
Warnings/Rating: Warning for talk of heart issues, so if this bothers or triggers you lmk and I'll avoid it in any threads we do.

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[bludhavenknight]

[He might have arthritis in every joint in his body, and an attitude that could sink a thousand ships, but just because he couldn't really fight didn't mean Bruce could do less damage.

Crap, why is that insanely hilarious? Dick has to keep grinning because god.]

Okay, eighty-four. That's a pretty big age gap, how old does that make the rest of us in the decades long future? [Oh no, don't think about that! He waves his hands.]

Sorry, don't answer that. I'd like to still be surprised when it comes to how old I'll actually be in the future. [And by that he means he does not want to think about how he's going to be in so many years. The waiter comes over and thank god, because he can turn that grin away.]

Coffee, please, with cream and sugar. [Extra sugar, can't say that. The waiter leaves, and Dick gets back to more serious.]

So what's it like? Besides awful.

[cowled]

I'm aged physically, Dick, not mentally. I haven't uncovered any esoteric information about the future.

[His mouth is a thin line when Dick orders, and it only becomes more-so at that question.]

How do you imagine it is?

[Because he's starting to consider the benefits of the Ra's al-Ghul health plan over here, thanks. He takes a careful drink of tea to give himself time to consider it. Would he? No. He's seen too well the effects of the pit. And in any case, he considers it a moot point. Bruce has no expectation to live to this physical age.]

this is a thing I had written for awhile and never posted

[bludhavenknight]

[And here he really thought that as you age, you automatically knew the future. Not really, but wouldn't it be nice if you could?]

I guess we're all just going to have to wait it out like normal people, then. [Dick sighs, though it's maybe a little more dramatic then a normal one. Not too dramatic. Just a tiny bit.]

Honestly? I imagine it's going to be awful. [He thinks for a moment.] You know that saying, old cheerleaders never die, they just dye their hair?

[No?] I'm pretty sure that, if they don't die, there's no way they'll ever be able to do all of the athletic things that they could when they were teenagers. Same goes for an acrobat, you know. At some point, you can't get back on the bars.

[And then all you have to look forward to is death.]