[Even for ghosts, the lack of evidence borders on ridiculous -- all the while challenging the scientific position that the dead should not be able to do this. Luckily, he's been doing the vigilante thing long enough that he can suspend the science, but not so much that vague sense of frustration from finding nothing to even supernaturally explain it.
Which is why he almost welcomes the interruption of a landing. It's far -- far enough that he can't get a gauge of size. He gets the feeling that the sound was the bare minimum meant to alert him, so that's a dud on matching audio to impact to come up with an idea of the arrival.
Guess that left him with the good ol' visual assessment. A bit low tech, but Bruce (hopefully) isn't watching and so he feels no shame in standing up and shifting to a three-quarters profile to see--]
Batgirl.
[He uses the title, though it'll never not sound different than when it fit Babs -- or even Cass. Stephanie tries. Dick knows she tries and there's so much improvement that it almost hurts to see, but the Batgirl shoes are as hard to fill as a Robin and that, no matter how he tries, colours his perceptions at times.
His voice, at least, is not harsh. It's not judgmental. It's more a careful neutral, because with ghosts in the air, this could be something playing with his senses. A ghost of Batgirl past? Just his luck.]
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Which is why he almost welcomes the interruption of a landing. It's far -- far enough that he can't get a gauge of size. He gets the feeling that the sound was the bare minimum meant to alert him, so that's a dud on matching audio to impact to come up with an idea of the arrival.
Guess that left him with the good ol' visual assessment. A bit low tech, but Bruce (hopefully) isn't watching and so he feels no shame in standing up and shifting to a three-quarters profile to see--]
Batgirl.
[He uses the title, though it'll never not sound different than when it fit Babs -- or even Cass. Stephanie tries. Dick knows she tries and there's so much improvement that it almost hurts to see, but the Batgirl shoes are as hard to fill as a Robin and that, no matter how he tries, colours his perceptions at times.
His voice, at least, is not harsh. It's not judgmental. It's more a careful neutral, because with ghosts in the air, this could be something playing with his senses. A ghost of Batgirl past? Just his luck.]