"Thank you, Ty" Black Canary said to the formally abducted teen he sat down and sent a dirty look to the floor. Little did he know that a small almost frail girl watching them all with a distrusting and fearful look look in her eyes. The heroes in the room noticed and some moved toward the other side of the room.
"Stephanie?" The young girl looked at the older woman and nodded her pale round face. Stephanie looked at the older women and sat down without making a sound, Black canary noted, it was like she was weightless.
"Stephanie-" the hero started, but was interrupted by the teen.
"Steph, just Steph, Stephanie makes me feel proper."
"I don't see what's wrong with feeling proper." Black Canary stated. She was waiting to see the reaction of the girl, but Stephanie was hiding her emotions well. Almost too well. And she was stubborn. So much like Artemis and yet so different. Artemis was hiding her secrets for her friends trust. This girl keeps her mouth shut for a more, if possible, reason.
"So why am I being filmed?" Slight annoyance, the only emotion showed in the entire conversation. "and where I come you get put into the hospital for being too proper. I come from an area where the rich look down and laugh at us. It's degrading."
"I'd imagine." The older hero replied.
"Thats why I ran away, I couldn't take it anymore. I had befriended Tim Drake-Wayne, and was shunned from the entire neighborhood. Then I made a beeline for bludhaven. I just needed an escape. I didn't know what else to do. And- and the worst part is that-that I never got 2 blocks when 5 goons ambushed me and e-everything went black. I woke up in a cage like a dog."Stephanie began crying. Little did the young girl know, but the adult knew, Black Canary was not only recording it but she was also bugged with a video transmitter and recorder. The one person who was listening was robin- tim. And he was pipping mad. He was going to make whoever did this to her pay.