Seaside Moors i got your girl on the back going tandem

The joke was so off the wall that it took Bat out of her head for a blessed moment as she laughed out loud. "Wait, what? Is that why you won't have me, because you're secretly into dick?" Bat teased back, totally lightheartedly but honestly curious about his bewildering remark.

His next comment immediately sobered her. She did not leap to reassure him, instead sighing out a, "Yeah..." She couldn't say why exactly it was so, just that something wasn't gelling. Even before the earthquake had struck, she'd sensed that the place was a ghost town. "What'd you do that chased everyone off while I was gone?"

Bat was trying to make light of it but maybe something had happened while she was gone? They hadn't exactly had a chance to catch up after her return, which prompted her to blurt, "We could always go to the Firebirds. They could honestly use the help right now, I think..."