The world rewinds and shatters, the fragments of memory turn into a vast and surging torrent, the brilliance of billions of stars falls into the sky, and the stars fall like rain.

In the clear light, Rania suddenly opened her eyes.

Like everyone else, she was also sent out of memory, and she didn't even have time to say a few words to Bruce, she could only watch them go away one by one.

But this time, Raniya didn't have much depression in her heart, because she knew very well that this was not the last side, this was not the land of the dead, they—her family members were still living in this world, and they still had a lot of time , enough for her to pour out her feelings to them.

But Raniya suddenly felt that she couldn't wait.

The scorching hot heart was beating in her chest, and even the palm holding the heart felt the warm current washing over her body. She couldn't wait, she couldn't wait for a second, she wanted to see all of them immediately.

The little girl couldn't wait to jump out of bed, opened the door, and went to find every one of her family members.

She found Alfred in the kitchen. The old butler had just brought the cookies out of the oven. Rania rushed forward and gave him a hug. Sniffing the rich sweet smell in her nostrils, she picked up the cookies and turned around. run.

Run slowly, Miss Rania.

Ah!

She found Titus and Ace in the living room, squatted down, and distributed the cookies to the two dogs. Looking at the two dogs, she couldn't help but hugged their necks and rubbed their fur, and was gently touched by them. Lick back.

You are like Dick, he also likes sugar, but you can't eat too much, it's bad for your health.

Wang!

She found Damian in the training room. Robin had just finished his morning practice and was about to go to the kitchen to find breakfast. Rania ran over with a cookie, and without hesitation lifted a biscuit and stuffed it into him. mouth.

can i give you a hug

Go away, your stupid breath is contagious—tch.

She caught Dick who had just left the room at the door. He rubbed his eyes and walked out of the room, but Rania stepped on the chair and covered his eyes from behind.

Have you brushed your teeth?

Um?I brushed... well, it's delicious.

She dug Tim out of the Batcave, glued to his computer, and handed over the plate with half a cookie left.

Next time you want to take a walk in the black mist, remember to make an appointment in advance. By the way, you will be bald if you stay up late, and you will not grow tall.

...Thanks, but I'm only 17 years old.

She sat on the front cover of the Batmobile with her knees hugged, and waited and waited with Cookie, and finally waited until the Batmobile slowly landed, and when the dark figure stepped off the fighterplane, she jumped on it immediately.

Welcome home, father.

It's too serious.

The little girl pretended not to hear, handed the cookie to her father, smiled sweetly, and watched him take a bite of the cookie.

With the last two biscuits left, Rania found a sealed bag, put the biscuits in, tied a bow, walked to the window, and stretched out her hand.

Wisps of black mist emerged from her sleeves, and the white-haired girl squatted on the window sill, opened her eyes, and looked at her flesh and blood.

The sons of black mist who were born with darkness, and the sons of sin who were born with uncleanness, they were originally twins bred by the sea of ​​emptiness and fog, and they should have no connection. So what happened in the original chaotic womb?

Raniya didn't want to think about this answer, she closed her eyes, hugged Mister gently, and hid herself under her open windbreaker, letting her wings cover her figure.

Jason, where is Jason?

After leaving Bruce's memory, Rania did not enter other memories, she did send an invitation letter, and she was very clear that she did not send invitations to others this time, because the memory she wanted to share she only wanted to show to one people watch.

That was Mist's perspective, and that was Raniya's perspective, the only beautiful story they shared, the world she saw for the first time, her lair, her city.

——And the moment she and Jason described her city, she decided that one day, she would share with him the most beautiful scenery in her memory in return for his willingness to listen to her story.

After that, many things happened, her thoughts were constantly changing, every word, every look, every contact and every hand extended, her longing and yearning grew day by day.Why do you need so many reasons?There is only one reason for all the heartbeats, because there is only one moment, because at that moment, he is the only one.

Since it has not entered the memory now, it should be rejected, right?

Although she was a little disappointed, Rania was not discouraged overall.

She may like many people in the future, fall in love many times, and kiss different people. Time will prove that her current thoughts are an illusion caused by hormones, but what does it matter?The emotions at this moment are real, and her desire to be tried is real, so she wants to try her best, no matter what, she will not regret it.

Perhaps Raniya's luck was overdrawn in Bruce's memory before. For some reason, the black fog searched all over Gotham, but there was no trace of Jason.

Sitting on the gargoyle, Raniya felt that her way of thinking might be wrong.

Jason was with Dick last night, but that doesn't mean he's still in Gotham after last night... His relationship with Bruce has always been bad. Although it has eased recently, it seems that he has no intention of coming back. It is also normal for events to leave suddenly.

Everyone has their own choice.Rania told herself.

She stroked the gargoyle under her body, shook her calf, and recalled the days she had experienced in the past few months, still feeling incredible.

From autumn to winter, and then to the coming spring, at some point, these times were painted with gorgeous and magnificent colors, shining like shards of glass in Rania's mind.

Raniya suddenly realized that she seemed to have expected too much, but her extravagant wishes seemed to have been realized, so even if there was a little unsatisfactory, it was just a small regret. What else did she want?

Am I worth it?Rania thought.

The crescent moon quietly hid behind the clouds, and the effectiveness of the magic was draining from Lania's body. The day was coming to an end, and her invitation still hadn't been answered.

But she has been invited, and she knows there are many more who have, and many more people she doesn't know who are celebrating the day, in corners she can't see, in every place she's been through. During the festival, they are all sincerely in love with each other.

As the twelve o'clock struck, the last bit of magic dissipated silently, facing the moonlight, Rania closed her eyes.

Suddenly, she heard laughter, the sound of fireworks rising into the sky, the familiar Italian language and the aroma of tripe buns. The breath from memory gently wrapped her up and pulled her back to the past.

Rania slowly opened her eyes, and saw the singing and dancing crowd and the fireworks in the night sky, acrobatics and singing and dancing were performed on the gondola, and the soft moonlight rippling in the river, she stood on the edge of the carnival ball, dressed gorgeously and exquisitely Wearing a dark dress and a "silent maid" mask, she looks like a tourist lost in the street, looking forward to meeting someone who can make her take off the mask at the carnival.

——This is the city where she made her first nest, Venice, Italy.

At the age of ten, after experiencing many deaths, Rania's condition was basically stable, and it happened that her former guardian took over a long-term commission, so she brought Rania to this ancient water city. Here, Rania learned to build a nest for the first time, and found that she could bring an entire city into her perception.

She owns this city, every sunset and sunrise of it, her tentacles are all over every corner of this city, she pans out ancient coins in the river, she finds tiny scratches under the walls, she Sifting through the sewers for centuries-old jewels, she wasted afternoons digging out the city's secrets, secrets that illuminated her lonely journey through nightmares like stars.

Even if she doesn't look, Rania will not get lost here. This is her city, and it is the place closest to home for her. She is very familiar with every brick and tile of this city, even if it is a carnival On the night of the New Year's Eve, she is also confident in finding the person she invites in the vast crowd.

She left the singing and laughing in the square, walked into the dark alley, walked along the rippling waterway, and passed passers-by wearing colorful masks.

Here she remembered a bakery...here tripe buns...here a mask shop...

As she walked, Rania's footsteps gradually slowed down. She stood in front of the souvenir shop, her eyes behind the mask were full of confusion.

The Venice in this memory seems to be a little different from her memory.Rania thought.

The mask shop in her memory has become a souvenir shop, and the owner has changed, from that fat middle-aged woman to this middle-aged man with a mustache. No matter what day it is, she doesn’t remember it. This person has appeared.

Rania watched for a while, then turned and left before the tourists entered the souvenir shop.

She began to wander in the city, shuttling among the tourists. This is still a city she is familiar with, but there is a little strangeness in the familiarity. The details in her memory have changed. These changes are not familiar to many Venetians. Obviously, and to Rania, it was enough to shock her.

Why?Rania was a little overwhelmed.

She wandered around the city in confusion, her gold-sprinkled skirt skimmed over the bricks and stones that had precipitated history, the river was full of gondolas full of tourists, the oars of the boats swayed the water waves, and the sound of the water seemed to lead people into a quiet place. dream.

In the end, Raniya stopped at a pier, staring blankly at the pier where the gondola was parked.

...there shouldn't be gondolas here.Rania thought.

She remembered that when she left Venice, the Mancini family hadn't saved enough to buy a gondola.

"I remember..." She held the mask on her face and muttered, "It's not like this."

In the alley behind him, someone said softly, "Because this is my memory."

Rania suddenly turned her head and saw a young man wearing a mask representing a "ghost" slowly walking out of the shadow of the alley.

"It seems that I guessed right." Jason came over, bent slightly, tapped his fingers on her mask, and said in a malicious tone, "You can't speak while wearing the 'Silent Maid' mask, right? ?”

His voice seemed to explode a small firework in Raniya's heart. She looked at his white mask and didn't know what to say.

This is his memory.she thinks.

Maybe it was because the invitations between each other would cancel each other, so she didn't receive the invitation, or maybe it was because it was delayed until twelve o'clock, so she thought her invitation was not accepted... But these are not important, When she found herself at the Carnival in Venice, Rania had already forgotten her previous thoughts, and was full of expectations to find Jason from the vast crowd.

She jumped onto the gondola following Jason, sat down on the bow of the boat, and watched him row the oars. The slender boat pierced the moonlight like an arrow and headed towards the direction where the fireworks rose.

She thought she was happy enough when she saw the carnival fireworks, but she didn't expect that she could be happier.

Thinking of this, Rania suddenly came back to her senses, and raised her head to look at the figure on the other side of the Gondola.

The girl crawled over slowly like a kitten, with her head raised, her eyes were shining, like rippling broken moonlight.

"...You are rowing very fast." She held back for a long time and said.

"Thank you. In fact, I have thought about coming to Venice to be a gondola driver when I can't survive." Jason said seriously.

He looked at the overlapping houses around him: "So this is your city."

Rania wanted to say a lot, but she didn't know where to start. Out of the corner of her eye, she glanced at a station not far away, and suddenly had an inspiration: "That's Biasio Station, and Santa Marcula is ahead..."

She started calling Jason the names of every water bus stop they passed, telling him what happened here, telling him stories she'd heard about every bridge, and Jason telling her why he loved Venice , talking about the books and movies he has seen, Shakespeare's comedies, Casanova, the cafe in St. Mark's Square...

"Do you speak Italian?" Rania asked while holding the mask to prevent it from falling off.

"You won't?" Jason asked back.

So the next two people said a bunch of jokes in Italian, and couldn't straighten their waists because of each other's strange accents. They floated in the river all the way in a boat and came to the Bridge of Sighs.

This is one of the most famous scenic spots in Venice. Because of the legend, countless lovers flock to this water city from all over the world. At that time, Rania often sat on the eaves, gnawed apples, and watched the gondolas under the bridge come. Come and go, also saw a lot of fun things.

Since the previous section of the road, there have been more people on the river, and Jason can't row a boat like before. He can only let the gondola float on the river, greet the men and women in costumes on the opposite boat, and listen to Rania's lively Tells about interesting things she saw in Venice.

The little girl happily mentioned the legend about the Bridge of Sighs - if lovers kiss each other on the gondola under the Bridge of Sighs at sunset, they will get eternal love forever.

"But this legend is not true at all," she said indifferently. "I saw an Italian man and his lover kissing under the bridge, and said a lot of sweet words, and then he came to the Bridge of Sighs the next year. , this time the girl is not as beautiful as the previous one...but her watch is from Patek Philippe."

In short, super rich.

When she was speaking, Jason rested his arms on the side of the boat, resting his face on the side with one hand, watching the cheerful little Shrike chirping loudly, his thoughts rising and falling with the waves outside the boat.

He has been to Venice, eaten tripe buns in the picturesque Piazza San Marco, and was invited by girls to dance together with a smile at the carnival, but at that time, all he thought about was the task, and what boiled in his chest was raging anger , didn't have the spare time to appreciate the scenery of the carnival, and didn't know that this city was once the lair of black mist, and it was the most beautiful place in the world in her mind.

He fiddles with snipers in the clock tower.When shooting the gun, he never thought that the white-haired girl would sit on the railing beside him, overlooking the rose-colored river in the setting sun.

After Rania finished speaking, he finally spoke and said, "Yes."

"So I shouldn't have brought you here, and you shouldn't have accepted my invitation," he said. "You don't...need me at all."

Facing the girl's puzzled eyes, Jason slowly closed his eyes.

"but I……"

When these two words were spoken, the sky was full of stars and the wind was whirling like lightning, rushing to the past like the wind, the night sky lit up again, the fireworks fell back to the ground, time quickly reversed, the magnificent clouds rushed to the sky from the end of the sky, and the sunset slowly came from under the bridge Rising, the tone of the water city is gentle like a movie.

In the setting sun, Jason opened his eyes, stretched out his hand, took off the mask on Lania's face, and looked into those transparent blue eyes, which reflected the color of flames, just a drop as blue as the sky, better than Thousands of scenery in the world.

He took off his mask, bowed his head and kissed his girl

The End

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