In the early morning of St. Valentine's Day, Rania sat in front of the mirror and thought.

This day is not so special for the people in this family. As always, no one stays in Wayne Manor except Rania, Alfred and the dogs.

Batman didn't come back last night. It is said that he is not on the earth at all, but is building a few super satellites with the Justice League outside the earth; Dick is also not there. It is said that something happened to Brudhaven, but I don't know Whether it's a gangster or a drug dealer, Raniya wants to help, but it's a pity that Black Mist was temporarily recruited by Tim, and now she is still working with Tim's members with the members of the Teen Titans; Jason doesn't know what he is doing, anyway. He has something to do, even if he is Rania's host, she is not completely aware of his every move when the black mist is evacuated; as for Damian... Rania doesn't even know when he disappeared Yes, you must know that the black mist covers the manor indiscriminately except for the area that Bruce doesn't let her approach. Robin's whereabouts when Batman is not around will always be a mystery.

In short, in this family, Rania, who lived a relatively normal life, has always been special.

It seems that except for Damian, her father and brothers all yearn for the life of ordinary people. The "ordinary" that Raniya thought before was their disguise and their desire.For Dick, it’s normal and normal, it’s probably promotion, salary increase, marriage and having children. For Jason, it’s probably raising plants, making bubble tea, reading books, taking a kindle to the park to feed pigeons when the weather is good, and Tim has already submitted it to the major Ivy League schools. After applying, he will go to university next year without accident...

But so far, only Rania is really living the life a kid her age should be living.

She goes to school step by step, does experiments, writes homework, participates in competitions and exams, hangs out with friends on weekends, learns to cook, make up and dance...wasting time aimlessly like any 16-year-old girl, enjoying life to the fullest .

Rania didn't know if this was her former guardian's original intention. He didn't do many things before he left. One of them was to send Rania to school. She didn't know why he did these things. Anyway, if he If you don't want to answer, then even if you ask him, you won't get an answer.

But does he believe in himself that much?Trust that she won't get lost without guidance, that she won't give in to shadows that lurk in her nightmares, that she won't succumb to the inherent nature of evil creatures?

Raniya doesn't know the answer, and there will never be a standard answer to this question. All she can do is be herself.

She spends her weekends in books and movies, she still overlooks the city at sunset, she explores more forms of beauty according to her own interests, she does not ask herself to be gregarious nor eager for friendship, she freely follows Living in the way I like, without knowing it, I washed away the abnormal breath of the first half of my life little by little.

Is this what you want to see?

It's impossible for Little Shrike to know the answer now, but it doesn't matter, she has a lot of time and opportunities, she can try the infinite possibilities of the future, she doesn't need to let herself step into a river so early.

But Raniya felt that there was nothing wrong with doing this now, and Damian didn't think so.Recently, Bruce planned to send Damian to a private school, but was strongly opposed by Robin. In order not to enter the school, Damian also tried to instigate his sister not to go to school together.

"Why do we have to go to school? I can teach those savages!" Damian complained angrily, "You are not enough, but I can teach you, your IQ is enough to understand my teaching, you are completely You don't have to go to school."

Rania blinked: "But I like school."

Damian: "...you sure don't think so."

Robin feels betrayed—Superboy should be proud that he's found an ally, and they should really be forming an "I Love School" duo.

The matter culminates in Batman threatening to fire Robin if she misses school, Damian reluctantly starts school, and Rania comes into contact with her family's shadowy life.

One of the benefits of having an evil creature that nests in Gotham as a family is that most of the time Batman doesn't need night watch. The speed of life is comparable to that of Superman, and now the urban legend of Gotham has changed from Batman to tentacles in the black mist.

So soon, Red Robin realized how useful Mist was, and immediately began to stretch out his claws to squeeze labor to his sister, tempting Rania to let Black Mist go out with him every night.

Then going out turned into encountering emergencies, from solving emergencies to solving various emergencies around the world, from two people working together to solve incidents to Tim expressing that the two are not enough, are you interested in getting to know more My friend, do you know Teen Titans... Then Raniya suddenly realized that her third brother might be walking her.

...In short, tonight is actually the first time that Rania has cooperated with the Teen Titans. Although the task tonight is not difficult, most of the time they are just squatting and getting to know each other by the way.

Tim also deliberately introduced Raven to her, and observed her reaction for a long time, which made the little girl very confused.

Raven is a mysterious and quiet black-haired girl. She seems to be very interested in the black mist, but she never approaches it, just watching quietly, her whole body hidden in the shadow of the cloak.

"She has wanted to know you for a long time," Tim introduced, "Mister, Raven."

Rania: "Well..."

Tim: "What?"

Rania looked at the dark-haired girl opposite, hesitated, and said honestly: "She looks delicious."

"..." Red Robin calmly turned Raniya's face to the other side, "Then let's meet other people."

The squatting went on until midnight, and apart from the fact that they beat up the nonsense Beast Boy together—"Hey, did you get another girlfriend?"—nothing worthwhile for the Teen Titans happened, as if the Red Robin I just want to provide an occasion for Rania to recognize someone, but the members of the Teen Titans maintain optimistic trust in their leaders, and firmly believe that Red Robin must have a backup.

After twelve o'clock, Rania said goodbye to her new friends with regret, and rushed back to Gotham to find her human shell.

"Are you feeling well?" Tim asked before leaving.

Rania shook her head: "No, but the presence of the black mist is needed, otherwise the scene may get out of control."

She thought for a while and added, "But you can see me later."

Tim: "...?"

If the black mist is not there, the scene will of course get out of control, because Rania will do something stupid next.

At a quarter past twelve, the white-haired girl jumped into the room from the window under the moonlight, holding a bottle of crystal clear tequila in her hand.

She uncapped the bottle as she walked, and Raniya was already sitting at the table with a glass in front of her. When Mister walked to the table, the bottle cap fell on the table. She supported the edge of the table with one hand, With a twist of the wrist, pure golden liquid poured out of the bottle and poured into the cup.

Raniya picked up the wine glass, looked at Tequila with some fear, and took a deep breath.

——Since reason doesn't want her to be unable to say that incantation, let reason stay alone.

The previous experience of being drunk made Raniya realize that her human shell not only has a terrible capacity for alcohol, but also unconsciously repeats the last sentence she heard before the fragmentation. After finding a way to say "I love you", Raniya immediately thought of this way.

The bottle cork was put back into the mouth of the wine bottle, Raniya looked at the black-haired girl at the table, leaned slightly, and leaned towards her ear.

"I love you," she said.

After saying this, the little girl closed her eyes, raised her head and drank the tequila in the cup in one gulp.

The soft and smooth liquid slid down her throat, igniting a fire-like pleasure. Raniya didn't even have time to put down the glass, and the hearty and ups and downs of drunkenness instantly engulfed the reason in the torrent of alcohol, rushing to the end of consciousness.

In an instant, her brain was completely occupied by an unclear psychedelic feeling, which drew the corners of her mouth into hooks.

Raniya looked at herself stumbling around the table and slowly raised her head, and saw the white-haired girl opposite, showing a big smile dizzily.

"I love you!" the little girl giggled.

...Okay, I'm already broken.Raniya thought bitterly.

She took the hand of the human shell, and the little girl immediately and naturally stretched out her arms to wrap around her neck, and tried to jump up further, putting all her weight on her.

She was still laughing, and her furry head was poking around in Rania's arms: "I love you!"

Raniya looked so sad—she hadn't been this clingy the last time she was drunk!This time... she almost thought she saw a second dick, think how scary it is, she is almost as clingy as a Labrador!

Seeing her human shell kept jumping on her body, Rania didn't know if she didn't want to walk, so Raniya could only bend down and wrap her arms around her knees, hug her up and take her to find someone.

Yet her intentions were thwarted—by herself.

The human shell in her arms suddenly didn't want to stay in her arms, struggled to jump off, and threw herself on the bed. Just when Raniya was having a headache and wondering if she wanted to sleep, she hugged the quilt and rubbed her cheek against the bed. Ceng, said to the quilt enthusiastically: "I love you."

Rania froze.

She watched in a daze as she put down the quilt, sat on the edge of the bed, reached out and patted the pillow, and tilted her head to look at the pattern on the pillow: "I love you."

All of a sudden, Rania understood who she was speaking to.

I love you, the quilt chosen by Ah Fu.I love you, the pillow whose corner was bitten by Titus.I love you schoolbag with Iron Man metal badge pinned.I love you, bookmark from Dick.I love you, Damian helped me with my homework.I love you, Jason's kindle.I love you, Tim's broken Apple Pencil.I love you, the revolving door chosen by Bruce.I love you, the moonlight outside the window.I love you, the quiet dark blue and the warm yellow light dotted in it.

She didn't try to reach out anymore, but looked at another self, and watched the more sincere self staggeringly open the door, her eyes rested on the doorknob for a while, she murmured silently, twisted the handle, and walked to the door the darkness outside.

The cold touch of the hand remained on her fingers, and was replaced by the smoothness of the stair railing. She walked down the stairs she walked every day, stroking an inconspicuous scratch on the railing that Alfred hadn't noticed, Raniya didn't know what the marks were before, but now she knew it was the knife marks left by Damian. She looked up at the exquisite patterns on the ceiling. She had only seen these beautiful patterns in documentaries , each gentle vortex seems to hide a nebula, and each string of assembled patterns seems to tell a story.

And the first time she saw them, she knew she would never get tired of watching them.

Suddenly, Rania remembered those dimly lit rooms.They are always in those cheap houses, there are not so many beautiful patterns, only mold, cobwebs and cracks on the stairs, her toys at that time were bullets, broken glass, rusty bolts, and the bullets jumped on the uneven floor , the glass reflected a dim light, and the rust on the bolts looked like a rich robe.

In little Rania's imagination, the bullet is a mercenary who kills without blinking an eye. On the battlefield, he rescued Princess Bolt who was hiding in the ruins. She was wearing a broken sari and her eyes were blood red like rust. , they sat on the glass fighter plane, went to the sky, to the seven seas, to the boundless meadow and the deep coal mine. She didn't know what a coal mine was, but she had seen the scenery of the mine with Remy in The Wandering Story of Kuer , in Lania's understanding at that time, it was the happiest place in the world.

If she could give herself such a sky at that time, what kind of stories could she come up with?

Of course she loves this kind of dome, loves this kind of wallpaper and carvings, just like she used to lie on the floor of the attic and observe every wormhole that was eaten out. She thought that those sundries just occupied an unpleasant corner of her memory, But when she thought of those dark rooms, she remembered every crevice her fingers touched.

There were corpses piled up in the stairwell, and there were also shiny silver cobwebs; the walls of the bathtub were stained with blood, and there were also small whirlpools when the water leaked; Baskets, when she passed the street, she had smelled the fragrance of grapes and oranges rubbed into the noise.

She no longer remembers the trivialities of those times, but she still remembers the sunset that sprinkled into the house every evening, and the soft and fluffy fur of the Labrador in front of the window is shining in her memory.

The past quietly merged into the long river of time, the dark memory fragments melted in the aroma of agave, penetrated into the deep ground with the snow water, buried in the soil, merged into the wasteland, moistened the young seeds, and called in the early spring Sprouts sprouted.

Rania descended the stairs, and memory followed her down the lonely throne.She killed the jealousy in the room, she listened to Dick at the door talking about Mist's weird cheating, she said "thank you" to Bruce in the room, she almost saw Jason for the first time She fell on the stairs, she asked Tim homework in the living room, where she heard Damian explain the exercises to her, she slept on the sofa in front of the fireplace, and touched Titus and ace Head, there should be no more cat hair in the kitchen now, but it can be predicted that it will be blown up by Bruce several times, and she remembers how resplendent the foyer was at Christmas, whether it was a dream or a reality.

While decorating the Christmas tree, Alfred had her hang a star from the top of the tree.

Alfred was still in the Batcave, and Rania watched herself carefully counting the steps and walking down slowly. It was not bad, at least she remembered that the stairs did not fall.

The little girl ran down and hugged the old butler who had just picked up the teacup from behind.

"I love you." She said softly.

Alfred paused with the hand holding the teacup, and slowly turned his head to look at the girl who was hugging him.

He sighed softly: "Yes, they should have gone home earlier."

"I love you." The little girl could only say this.

But this sentence is enough.

A day seems very long, but there is always time for people to date, so before dawn, Rania will send out all the invitations, and now she has been at home long enough, she still has to find the unknown For the missing family members, the task is not easy.

Rania thought about it, but her body didn't want to move.

She quietly watched the other self let out a long breath, turned her head and reached out to her, with a carefree smile on the corner of her mouth, as if she wanted to give her a hug.

Raniya looked at her for a long time, walked up, put on a thick woolen coat for herself, patted her on the head, picked her up, and walked to the gate of the manor.

When they walked out of the manor, they all turned their heads and stared at the mansion in the mist.

I love you, home.

The crisp syllables flew towards the manor, turned into invisible wings, and enveloped the homeland in the black mist, while the girls left home to go to the distant place where their families were.

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