Chapter 1 - 746
The nurse's heels clicked on the tiled floor as she marched down the snow white corridor. She wore completely white. Except for her shoes, which were black and a small badge she wore just above her breast on her shirt. She carried an aluminium tray in front of her. The plastic cup half filled with water waved and the round roll tumbled as she took each step.
The corridor was awfully long. The floor was white, the walls were white and the doors were white. The corridor was lined with doors, about 30 of them, 15 or so on each side. As was the next corridor, and the next one and the next one after that.
The nurse stopped and turned to face the last door in this corridor. The tray in her hand was slightly shaking, the water waving even more rapidly than it already had been. You would have thought she would be used to this job by now, after all it had been 7 years since her first day on the job.
In silver lettering a sign on the door read:
"AA-746 - E.Nygma"
She bent down hesitantly. Placing the tray on the floor she took a deep breath. A skinny, malnourished looking hand appeared and slid the tray under the door completely disappearing from sight.
The nurse stood back up, straight again. She turned to her left and began walking down the corridor.
Three clashes of metal echoed through the empty path. The sound of the clean aluminium play smashing on the wall of the cell. She stopped her synchronised march.
A cackled male laugh was then heard from the gap under the door.
"You wanna know who he really is? You want to know his name?"
She paid no attention to his roars and began walking again, hurried making her exit. She dealt with nutters like him everyday anyway, so this was really no different.
He heard her heels clicking away, getting quieter as she paced away from his cell.
He yelled at her again, even louder.
"Don't you want to know who Batman is? I'll tell you who he is...he's me!!" He shouted crazily followed by his usual insane laugh.
The nurse had already left the hall, and entered another one, still he continued to talk to himself.
He whispered...
"I see without seeing. To me, darkness is as clear as daylight. What am I?"
There was silence for a few seconds.
"Yep, you guessed it beautiful, I'm as blind as a bat! HAHA!!"
Still there was no reply from the beautiful nurse to any of his gestures.
He rolled over on his lumpy, hard, uncomfortable mattress. Sucking his thumb he murmured to himself.
His speech was muffled by his thumb. But what did he care, no one was actually listening.
"Riddle me this, riddle me that, who's afraid of the big...black...bat?"