( Collette hears it as a backtrack. She doesn't know if she and Steph both lie in the same ways, or have lied like that before, but she guesses just a little, maybe. Though the vigilante lifestyle, that whole thing builds into one complicated weave of lies by necessity and artifice.
She feels sad right then, sad for this city that's demanded for people to be like Stephanie and Dick and Jason, sad because she cares for all of them, sad because she cares for Ellie, sad because she likes Saul.
It's not that she thinks Steph's in love with Saul. She thinks, maybe, Steph's confused, likes that Saul is steady where Ellie can't be, not yet. Thinks Steph wants a different kind of steady from a guy like that, wonders if this Batman who messes up everything in Gotham trying to save it might have something to do with it.
(Batman, who she only has ever heard the barest spoken word. They're all idle thoughts.)
Sad and smiles nonetheless, like Steph's cleared anything up at all. She wants to believe her. But she can't. What Steph says now is not what she was saying earlier, though it is a justification.
She lets that topic drop, sliding along with the one she'd been intending in the first: )
And you need other people by your side while the Oracle's running things back home, stand in or not! That's what I mean, Steph. So hey, let me help with this, all right? I want to help. Ellie's my friend too, and -- and all these people missing, I want them home.
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She feels sad right then, sad for this city that's demanded for people to be like Stephanie and Dick and Jason, sad because she cares for all of them, sad because she cares for Ellie, sad because she likes Saul.
It's not that she thinks Steph's in love with Saul. She thinks, maybe, Steph's confused, likes that Saul is steady where Ellie can't be, not yet. Thinks Steph wants a different kind of steady from a guy like that, wonders if this Batman who messes up everything in Gotham trying to save it might have something to do with it.
(Batman, who she only has ever heard the barest spoken word. They're all idle thoughts.)
Sad and smiles nonetheless, like Steph's cleared anything up at all. She wants to believe her. But she can't. What Steph says now is not what she was saying earlier, though it is a justification.
She lets that topic drop, sliding along with the one she'd been intending in the first: )
And you need other people by your side while the Oracle's running things back home, stand in or not! That's what I mean, Steph. So hey, let me help with this, all right? I want to help. Ellie's my friend too, and -- and all these people missing, I want them home.