"She's asleep." Raven says wearily as she closes the door to Zatanna's room after her, ever since Fate brought down the barrier, she has been aware of Fate, Inza, Jason and Amazo standing out there, waiting for her to emerge.

"Is it true?" Jason asks.

"Yes, while brainwashed, some of them did it to her, who or how many, I don't know." Raven replies without looking at them.

"How is the Batman taking it?" Jason continues while trying to calm his own rage.

"You don't want to know." Raven says, knowing the man's rage is pushing her own boundaries as she provides him with a legion of thugs to demolish. The other founders have withdrawn to the satellite.

"We will need to have her examined when she is well enough to cope with it, but we keep it quiet for now." Fate says getting a nod out of Raven, the last thing they needed was Zatanna's friends in the League forming a lynch mob.

"I will contact Pieter Cross." Inza says before walking off.

"What do the Founders say?" Amazo asks Raven.

"Nothing yet, they are holding a meeting." Raven replies flatly. "I need to go meditate."

Several hours later, everything inside of Raven has calmed down; the anger is gone from her and the others. She had confronted Bruce after half an hour about his anger, which surprised her, was only partially aimed at those who abused his childhood friend, it was also aimed at himself for reawakening that memory. After he calmed down a little, she suggested that they meditated together, reasoning that they both needed it. The others emerged from the satellite some time later and found them like that in Bravery's arena, which looked odd, because the two were sitting in a battlefield in progress. When made aware of their presence J'onn suggested that they all joined in as he also could sense the still rampaging emotions around them. Diana, Wally and Shayera, were more inclined to go hit something or didn't have the patience, but joined in anyways because it wouldn't solve anything. Because of Wally's accelerated way of thinking, it took him the longest to get it right. For Raven it was at first a little strange to have a group session, which she hadn't had since the last morning on Themyscira, but it proved to be very effective as she learned how much the Leaguers presence was actually influencing her mentally. As she opens her eyes in the real world, she finds that she is not alone in Fate's library either where she is floating above the table. To her right sits Inza, in front of her floats Dr. Fate and most surprisingly, to her left floats a haggard looking Zatanna who has changed into a clean set of clothes, Raven can understand why she needs the inner peace now.

"We all needed this and your presence seems to make it easier." Fate mentions, Raven quickly checks if she is still unconsciously forcing her empathy on those around her, but finds it inactive as it should be.

"Glad I can help." Raven replies while wondering if anyone else had the same experience around her, and if so, why hadn't anyone said anything before noticing Zatanna and Inza opening their eyes as well.

"I need something to do." Zatanna says flatly, the others nod in agreement; she needs something to focus on.

"There are the missing guards." Raven notes.

"It won't make any difference to them if they are found or not." Zatanna sighs. "Katana and the man took them apart before I got rid of the remains. But you are right, the families deserves to get them back."

"Raven, perhaps you would you care to enlighten us on the task Shazam set you on?" Fate asks, Raven had only mentioned the result, not the means and Marvel hadn't given any details either.

"I have to get Black Adam to the Rock of Eternity, currently he is being held on Oolong Island and I have to do it alone. I have the matter of Adam himself down; problem now is Oolong which could contain all manner of obstacles besides that I don't know where on the island they keep Adam."

"Black Adam? Can you even take someone like that down?" Zatanna asks in surprise.

"I have to try, but I did unintentionally knock Captain Marvel out while at the Rock, so I have a chance unless Adam is more durable than him."

"How did you do that?" Fate asks.

"I…erm…tried to hit Shazam with a ball of fire I spat out after he did something to me, Marvel jumped in the way and took the blast."

"You spit fire?" Zatanna asks while raising an eyebrow, Raven sighs.

"If we can get Jason down here, it will be easier to explain."

"Good thing I was near then." The redhead says as he walks into the room with a cup of coffee in one hand, the other in his pocket. "You make good coffee." He notes at Inza.

"Thank you Jason." Inza nods while Raven gets up and hovers over to the side and removes her boots.

"You all already know I look like this." Raven says as she transforms into the first stage as she is beginning to call it internally. "This was because of a dragon I ended up like this." She says while looking at Zatanna. "Yes I was half demon before and still am, but I looked human, Malchior just reversed that. It took me half a year and a meeting with the Phantom Stranger to be able to change back. When I got up to Shazam, he decided to expand on what the dragon did and forcibly transformed me into this." She says as she changes to her most monstrous form, Jason ends up coughing on his coffee is surprise and Zatanna's eyes go wide and slightly scared as Raven gets back up on her feet.

"Your true form?" Fate notes.

"I'd prefer calling what I was born like as my true form." Raven sighs. "This isn't me; I don't want this to be what I am." Raven replies with a hint of sadness.

"But what is 'this'?" Zatanna asks.

"Jason, what am I?" Raven counters as Jason has put his cup down, knowing the man or rather Etrigan would be able to confirm what she thought it was.

"A demon queen, an archfiend as the ruling class is called." Jason says while studying Raven with his mystic eyes. "By all conventional rules, you shouldn't even be on this plane…but that will be your humanity that allows it."

"And Etrigan?" Raven asks.

"He's…intimidated?" Jason realizes a bit surprised. "But he knew you had this lurking inside of you."

"That's a new one." Zatanna notes at Jason's reply, mainly because save for Raven, the others had actually seen Etrigan leap at the Spectre thinking he could rip him apart.

"Not really." Fate adds. "Soldier demons are bred to fear the upper classes."

"It keeps them in line." Jason sighs. "While Etrigan normally fears nothing, Raven has already defeated him once with impunity; that will stay him from attempting for a long while if not pushed to act. The night we met was the usual pecking order being established, if it was not him attempting to stop you realizing this." He continues as he sits down.

"The Founders have tried to aid me in figuring out how to handle this, but I still don't know how I knocked Marvel out." Raven sighs.

"Hmm, I may be able to make a pocked dimension you can explore your capabilities." Fate mentions.

"I don't think I have the time I'm afraid, Shazam fears those who are holding Adam will soon be able to control or clone him."

"You need to talk to Mr. Terrific about Oolong if you have not done so already." Fate replies.

"Yeah, he mentioned he was invited over when they started up." Raven replies while changing back, looking drained when she finishes.

"Looks like it hurts?" Zatanna notes.

"It does." Raven sighs as she steps into her boots. "I guess I'd better get going."

"Wait, I need to know, did you get them?" Zatanna asks.

"The ones who…did this to you?" Raven asks, not knowing who actually did anything, but she has a pretty good idea, Zatanna nods. "I didn't want to ask you till you were ok to talk about it, but we got everyone in that rat hole."

"Zee, who did it?" Jason asks, Zatanna immediately seems hurt by the mention.

"I remember Dr. Psycho, Dr. Light a…a…and some blonde girl…but, it's all a mess." It's disheartening for Raven to watch Zatanna come apart again in her chair, as much as her rage tries to rise again.

"Terra..." Raven sighs as she rubs her eyes as she digs up a memory of what Terra had also done. "Why didn't I see that?" She growls in irritation.

"I…I heard someone call her that." Zatanna stammers, fighting her tears back. "D…do you know her?" Raven nods without looking at her.

"Former Titan, sold us out to our greatest enemy and now murderer of several of us, and now this." Raven sighs while wondering if there was nothing Terra wouldn't do, and this latest act was just considered a bit of fun to relieve boredom and to test how little Zatanna and the others were aware of. "She incapacitated J'onn so I searched her mind, Azar…I can she what she did…" Raven says as Zatanna breaks down again, Raven doesn't know if it's the others presence inside of her that makes her walk over to comfort the woman with a hug.

"You were overwhelmed by the death of your friends." J'onn says from the inside.

"I should have kept calm and seen this." Raven sends back.

"No use thinking about that now, when Adam is retrieved you need time to sort through it all." Superman continues as the others begin to dread what else might have happened.

"They will be dealt with later; you need to focus on the job at hand." Bruce growls, Raven knows that tone doesn't bode well for the three. "When you get up there, talk to Kyle."

"Raven to Watchtower."

"Watchtower receiving go ahead Raven." Mr. Terrific replies.

"I need a trip and a talk with you." Comes the reply over the communications device.

"Coming right up." He replies as he types in the coordinated he sees on the screen in front of him, pinpointing Raven's location just outside the Tower of Fate. The huge machine that is the teleporters hum softly before a lighting up the blue pads on top and a person takes form on the central one. The woman steps off immediately after reforming before flying up to Mr. Terrific. "Guess this is about Oolong?"

"Yeah, I need to know anything you might about of the insides that wasn't in the files." Raven says as she lands next to him.

"Hmm, there's not much I can say about it, considering it's been two years since I was there." He says while patting the empty seat next to him for her to sit on before bringing up a small map on one of the console screens. "When I was there, Oolong was just these two buildings." He says while pointing at two separate squares on the screen before showing an aerial movie of the complete complex on another screen. "The building over there was the first managers quarters, now it's probably Cale's unless she moved it. Everyone else bunked and worked in the other one. Hold up, think Cale lives in that one." He says while pointing at a number of small squares far from the rest of the complex. "Only one that looks like a luxury house form above." He mentions. "From what I can guess, her old quarters will be where everyone will be sleeping now, if they do that is. The old hall, where we were received, will most likely have undergone numerous changes since I was there, since it was an old aircraft hangar with holes in the roof, now it looks like a fortified bunker."

"So you can tell me where they live, and not much else?" Raven asks feeling a bit disappointed.

"Well I can tell you where they get their power from." He says before bringing up an island map, marking three spots with circles and lines. "We know there are two nuclear power plants very advanced from what I hear, and unstable." He says while pointing their locations out, but there is nothing on the image that looks like a nuclear power plant. "They hide it because they don't want the UN to know they have them. Officially it is all run on this small hydropower plant. Telemetry shows that most of the power is directed into the main hall here." He says while his finger traces from the plants to the largest square on the screen. "I doubt its Adam they are spending all the energy on, but it might be worth looking into if you can."

"I thought Adam would require a lot of energy to pin down?" Raven ventures.

"Not really, even he has limits and once pinned, it won't take much for them to keep him that way. Even if we knew when they got hold of him, it would be hard to pinpoint him, since they start up projects all the time while terminating others. I doubt even most of the scientist know what the others are doing." Terrific sighs.

"A jealous sort." Raven notes.

"Very, I managed to see two of them getting into a fight over who had invented the better robot. Guess you want to know what to expect as well?"

"I suspect you can't give me anything accurate?" Raven continues.

"No, but it will be beyond state of the art stuff. Killer robots, genetically grown beasts, enhanced trooper's, whatever you can think science can come up with will be found on that island. Like I said, it's a collective of mad scientists, never let anything fool you, it could be lethal."

"Anything you could advise me on using?" She asks while considering an approach that didn't involve brute force.

"Stealth and magic, that's all I can say really. People like you, Fate and Zatanna continue to baffle scientists like me with the things you do, and it will be the same for the people down there, but don't think it's a get out a of jail free card." Terrific makes a point to lock eyes with Raven to make sure she understands.

"I didn't think this would be easy." Raven notes dryly. "Thank you for the information." She says as she gets up.

"No problem, just come back in one piece." Terrific says before turning back to the big screens. "Oh, before I forget, Batman wanted you to come to the informal meeting room if you got up here while he was up here."

"Ok." Raven replies before heading off.

"What makes you so sure she will show up now?" Kyle asks as he sits at the otherwise empty table while leaning his head on his fist while playing with a glowing green yo-yo.

"I have my ways." Batman replies without turning from the viewing ports as a series of knocks is heard from the door."That would be her." He says as the door opens and Raven enters.

"I heard you wanted to talk to me?" Raven says after closing the door. "Hello Kyle." The Green Lantern waves at her as his toy disappears.

"Yes, Green Lantern is here because I know how a man inside your head wants to do this, and so am I." Batman says.

"Ok, and how is that?" Raven asks.

"Oolong is a sovereign nation, recognized by a number of nations and is currently working on being accepted by the UN. If a member of the League is seen attacking it, it could prove damaging for the League, both legally and publicly as they have methods of making it look bad for us. Also, there is the very real threat of you being captured during this, I won't say that I will happen, but the chance here is bigger than almost anywhere else. I know how tough you are, but we have to limit the damage it can do in case you do get caught and detained. For that reason, I am going to ask you to hand over you League credentials." Richard says firmly, but Raven can tell he is feeling bad about extending his hand for the items. "You will get them back when you return." He says as he receives the small communicator and the card carrying Raven's number, name and hooded image. "Now there is the problem of appearance, while you may think you are a very small blip on a screen for most. These people can get access to any information they want, and that includes the files Waller has on you. Even with the other shape you have, the lines between dots will be connected, the eyes will give it away."

"So Kyle is here to…?" Raven asks flatly, cutting him off, feeling very much like she was back in the Tower getting lectured by Robin.

"Throw idea's out for your new disguise." The man says with a smile as he animates a pad and a pencil.

Two teeth grinding hours later Raven exits the meeting room with a two broadly grinning men in tow. Raven isn't sure how thankful for she should be for Kyle's presence in the League. The man is skilled with a pencil and has a mind for the wildest ideas, which is to his credit, mostly. Some of it however should have remained inside of his head. She had to insist why she wouldn't pretend to be a Japanese manga style robot or some half-dressed bikini model with a huge sword, it did annoy her even more when she noticed how much Richard was enjoying the visualized suggestions Kyle came up with. Bruce had begun grumbling as well, which made them both take it a little more seriously. Richard had suggested Raven initially made landfall as boat refugee washing up on the shore since Oolong is situated between China and the southeastern archipelago of Asia, while fugitives from the south are not as numerous as those attempting to flee North Korea, they still happen. They had agreed it was a way on getting onto the island without triggering any alarms a flying human would, since they had agreed that arriving with all guns blazing would be foolish, since Oolong had captured a man who had a habit of arriving like that. In the end they had come up with the specifics of a disguise where Raven could be in her human form but appear to be someone else. Raven had sighed deeply when she realized that if she arrives as a refugee, she would have to leave everything behind from the world that could be associated with her, including her clothes and bracelets. And when things got ugly, and they would, she would have to look ridiculous.

"Oh friend Raven I have found you!" Just what Raven needed, between snickering men and emotionally ruined sorceresses; Starfire. She looks odd Raven notes with a raised eyebrow, Richard notes it as well.

"Starfire. Why is there stuffing in your boots?" Raven asks noting a white string of something sticking out of her right boot, and it's also in her top. Combined with the malnourishment and scars, Starfire looks like toy assembled from bits of two bits of different models.

"I am…erm…trying to look less like the malnourished." The alien princess says as she lands, Raven can feel the words spoken hours before still stings her friend.

"I will get you a diet and a training regime to get you back in shape." Batman says.

"What did you want Star?" Raven asks as Starfire seems to become happier, Richard always had a way of making her that way just by speaking to her.

"I was looking for friend Beastboy but was informed that he had gone with the Patrol of Doom to the Island of Oolong and it occurred to me that you would soon be there too. I was just afraid that you may find yourselves on opposing sides, tell me he has not done the Terra?!" As quickly Starfire had gotten happy she's shifted into near panic.

"No, he has not Star." Rave replies after shoving the image of the blonde into a deep dark hole in her mind. "The Patrol is hoping one of the scientists will be able to cure some of them. But that may put them between me and what I need to do."

"But does that not mean you will have to fight them?" Starfire asks seemingly shrinking.

"It may." Raven sighs, she hates that thought.

"But…"

"Star, I promise I won't hurt them if I can avoid it, Garfield least of all." At Raven's mention of the changeling's name, something seems to flare inside the alien, the same thing Diana practically radiates. "You love him, don't you?" Behind her she can practically hear Richards jaw hit the floor, Kyle just seems puzzled.

"I…I think I do." Starfire stammers while looking at the ground as if it was something to be embarrassed about.

"Star, that's wonderful." Ravens reply has Starfire looks up in surprise. "It's not a thing to be ashamed of. Does he know?"

"I do not know." Starfire admits."I have not told him." Raven just nods at her.

"He is a little sensitive with Terra and all of that right now, but he will see it." Raven says while patting her friends shoulder. "But he will find it funny if you keep stuffing your clothes like that."

"Perhaps I should go to him then?" Starfire asks, apparently having forgotten what that could mean.

"No, there are bad men on that island Star, they will think of you like your sister does." That seems to do the trick and Starfire takes on a defeated expression.

"I shall await his return then. But what do you think friend Robin?" She asks the man in black behind Raven.

"You deserve each other Star." He says with a smile, Starfire squeals before hugging Raven and Richard before flying off, presumably to tell Cyborg. "The whole station will know before Gar."

"Yup." Raven agrees.

"Was she always like that?" Kyle asks.

"She never grasped the language completely." Richard replies while thinking of all the trouble those two would get into.

"He needs to know about Zatanna." Bruce says.

"Umm Batman, a word?" Raven says before walking into the meeting room again, Richard shrugs before walking inside again while giving Kyle an appreciative nod.

"What's up?"

"There's some bad news you need to hear about Zatanna." Raven sighs, noticing the happy atmosphere disappear completely from Richard. "Because of the guards missing in Seattle, Zatanna needed to have her memories back of what had happened during the time she was brainwashed."

"What happened Rae?" Batman asks quietly.

"Psycho, Light and Terra raped her." Richard almost explodes on the inside at Ravens quiet words.

"What?!" He shouts.

"I am sorry." Raven says before looking at the ground, the action almost has her missing Richard storm out of the door.

"Stop him!" Bruce yells from the inside and Raven is almost out the door the same instant, quickly seizing Richard in her power before teleporting them both back into the in meeting room, sealing the door shut before dropping him.

"Let me out Raven!" He yells at the door that refuses to open. "I'll kill her!"

"Richard breathe!" Raven says firmly while putting a hand on his shoulder, she hardly sees the movement, but she feels the flat hand striking her right cheek causing her to pull back in surprise, while keeping a hand on the wounded area. "Look what she's doing." Raven almost whispers her plea to the seething man facing her, something seems to click inside of Richard and he immediately goes from enraged to appalled and concerned.

"My god…I...I'm sorry Rae, I don't know what came over me!" He says before moving forwards quickly to give her a hug. "Did I hurt you?"

"No, just surprised me." Raven says before freeing her arms enough to return the hug and rests her head on his shoulder. "Just don't let her destroy us."

"You are right, she is tearing us apart."

"We have to hold onto each other; Terra will face her judgment eventually and she will face it utterly alone." Raven sighs.

"Wonder if Etrigan would like a chew toy or something?" Richard asks half jokingly, getting a slight chuckle out of Raven.

"We shouldn't make fun of something like that."

"Join the dark side, we have cookies." Richard sighs before letting go of her. "How is Zee holding up?"

"She is very fragile right now, but Fate will keep her mind off it if he can."

"Good, you will leave tomorrow, go back to Gotham and get some rest; I want to go see Zatanna."

"You may want to wait a little; Inza had paged Dr. Mid-Night to have her examined." Raven sighs.

"She will need a friend then." Raven nods slowly at his reply before they part. "Sleep well."

Wayne Manor:

"Before you turn in, there is one thing I need you to do." Bruce says as Raven is changing into her nightwear.

"What?" She asks.

"The computer."

"The failsafe?"

"Yes." Bruce replies as Raven teleports down into the cave.

"Charming as ever." Shayera notes, she could count on two hands how many times she's been here.

"It's s good place to sleep." Raven sends back as she lands on the top platform. "And the bats are used to humans."

"Don't tell me you befriended them?" Flash asks, Raven just smirks before spreading out her arms and focusing slightly, the cave ceiling seems to come alive as the thousands of bats drop down from the ceiling and swarms the central area where Raven is standing. "Watch out!"

"Don't worry." Raven says as she calmly closes her eyes as the bats swarm around her, feeling them brush against her skin as some get too close. "Feels like a welcome home greeting." She says as she opens her eyes again as the bats retreat again to go on their nocturnal hunt.

"You're really weird, you know that?" Flash asks.

"Half-demon, remember?" Raven says feeling amused as she sits down in front of the computer, levitating the few droppings she finds off it. "So what do you want me to do?"

"Bottom right of the screen." Bruce says, Raven notes the small tray there only has one other icon besides the clock, a small hourglass which she activates. "I will send what you need to type." He continues as the first password is being asked for. She gets several of these screens, typing in long numerical codes, names and long lines of gibberish before the last one is done leaving Raven to watch the desktop of the computer and the files there, finding a file carrying her name on it on the bottom of the column along the other clan members, where the Leaguers were apparently clumped into the folder labeled JLA. "You don't need to look in that, not yet at least."

"Keeping secrets are we?" Raven asks amused and having a strange sense of pride.

"Many, but it is time for sleep, you will need it."

"Agreed, let's hope it's without nightmares this time." Raven says before teleporting back to her room after logging off.

Later, Raven's Mind:

"Watching stars or is it dreams again?" Diana asks with a smile as she finds Bruce lying on a hill with his hands under his head in Happy's realm, like Raven, her emotions generally go to sleep or remain mostly inactive when she does. Both J'onn and Bruce suspect there are representatives of Dream and Nightmare on Ravens council somewhere. The only emotions that didn't seem to sleep, is Rage and Hatred, judging from the muted screams heard from their realm.

"Thinking." Bruce replies as Diana sits down next to him.

"About?"

"Whenever we have a right to return." Bruce replies flatly without looking at Diana. "Luthor killed us; by all accounts we shouldn't come back. We tempt death on a daily basis and now we seek to cheat him. Perhaps Raven shouldn't have to risk life and limb for some who are already dead."

"I think you are being affected by our condition." Diana sighs, admitting she is also beginning to feel it. They don't need to breathe, they don't tire and they don't need to eat or drink, not that the spectral food they can get in the market place has any taste to them.

"It's like everything has lost its flavor." Bruce says continuing her line of thoughts.

"Wonder how the Azerathians handle this?" Diana sighs feeling depressed.

"We require less than you do." A woman's voice says from behind them, making them turn around finding Arella walk up the hill towards them.

"Arella, what brings you here?" Diana asks as the two get up.

"You did, I can sense what you are going though; trouble adapting to being here." Arella says. "Believe me, it was difficult for some of us to adapt to it as well, some couldn't and left."

"What did you mean, we need more than you?" Batman asks.

"Simple, we Azerathians lived a life of peace, we needed nothing more than what we had in life, yet now we have less in a way, but we need nothing more than what we have. Unknowingly you crave more than what you have and you know you can't get it." Arella explains.

"And what is it we want?" Diana asks.

"A real world." Arella replies flatly. "We are a spiritual people, the body holds no real value to us, but the spirit is in high regard. For us this is life, only by another route."

"I suppose that's true, I do miss the air, the sun." Diana sighs. "And the senses I seem to have lost in this place."

"They are still there if they are a part of your mind. Alas the sun never truly shines in here, but the stars are beautiful." Arella says as she looks up.

"I miss its warmth." Diana mentions.

"That cannot be replaced, except with the feeling of warmth from others." Arella says without looking away from the stars.

"You're right; it is warmer when others are near." Bruce confirms.

"Doesn't this existence grow intolerable for you?" Diana asks.

"No, we have our prayers and our way of life. And I am more in contact with my daughter now than I have ever been before." Arella gives Diana a sad smile that tells volumes how much she loved her child and grieved for the lost childhood she was never a part of.

"If you could, would you return?" Diana asks.

"Unless Azerath could be restored? No, I left your world and its ways many years ago and I have not regretted that once." Arella replies with a firm voice.

"People aren't meant to return from the dead." Bruce sighs returning to his original thoughts.

"No, but even we of Azarath know of the terrible Spectre of Vengeance and the Phantom Stranger, we did before Raven encountered either of them. But we know they serve their purposes, neither I nor Hemon are in any doubt that the Stranger asked you to wait for more than to cheer Raven on. We are strong believers of prophecies, think of this as has having been decided beforehand, you were all meant to die that day as you are perhaps meant to return to the land of the living. For what reason I cannot guess, but perhaps years later you will remember this event so that I may aid you." Arella's explanation seems to strengthen Diana immeasurably yet Bruce remains gloomy.

"We of Themyscira have our own prophecies and I will hold onto your reasoning Arella of Azerath." Diana says as she gives the woman a short bow of respect.

"I don't like it, not being in control of my life." Bruce says quietly. "Was it decided that my parents were gunned down in an alley? Was it destined that I tried to avenge them in this fashion? Did I even have a choice in the matter?"

"Nothing is set in stone Batman." Arella says. "Raven was born knowing she would destroy the world, while she did accomplish that, no one had foreseen that she and her friends would endured and retaliate. We didn't, but often tried scrying for knowledge of an aftermath while she was raised." Arella tries.

"I think Bruce needs to hear this another way, think of a prophecy as a glimpse of a future based on the actions and choices made in the past, that is why all prophecies are uncertain to a degree, they only show a future based on a series of choices, make a different choice and the result will be different." Diana tries.

"Yet some things are set in stone." Bruce sighs.

"A Batman may have been destined to emerge, but who's to say it may not have been another than you? Or what that person could have taken it to?" Arella says.

"Owlman." Bruce sighs, reminded of an alternate version of himself.

"One choice you made years ago may have made you him." Diana mentions.

"He still must have had a trigger to begin." Bruce continues.

"Not at all, he may just have gotten up one day and decided to do what he does." Arella says. "While I do not know you or your parents, it was your choice alone to do what you do now; you could have chosen a different course of action and ended up with a different result."

"I know many people are grateful for, the choices you made." Diana says while fixing him with a gentle stare. "Me included." Bruce just sighs before he turns around and walks away. "He will never be able to talk about it." Diana sighs after he is out of ear short.

"Doubt he'd be the same man if he could." Arella agrees. "If he was to become one of Raven's emotions, I fear he'd end up in Rage's realm."

"Rage is not always a bad thing." Diana cuts in.

"In Raven's case it was before the demon was separated from it. Now I do not know." Arella continues while looking at the ground.

"But she is free of it now?"

"As long as the demon is contained, yes. But such things have a way of finding their ways out. How and when is impossible to say, with the life she leads. Do you think Batman will let go of life?" Arella asks, changing subjects

"No, he is not the one to change his mind. I think it is because he is close to his parents now, just one decision and he could be with them again, if he really wanted to, he would never have come here."

"I see." Arella nods. "I won't need to ask you to make sure of that?"

"Of course not, I doubt the rest of us could cope with him suddenly leaving." Diana replies. "But that is not why you are asking."

"No, I am asking on Raven's behalf, though she doesn't know about it. It may just be coincidental, but she regards Batman and the man beneath the cowl as a kind of father figure." Diana manages to look surprised at this, making Arella continue. "He was the first man from Earth who showed her something other than fear and contempt, when she learned about him and how others regarded him, she decided he was the ideal model she could aim for. To become something like him one day, instead of falling to the whims of her father."

"It is a noble aspiration, she will reach it one day." Diana says with a smile.

"Unfortunately, I agree what he does is a noble thing, but as a mother I fear she will condemn herself to a lonely life, one she shouldn't have to live." Arella sighs.

"She won't." Diana says firmly. "Like Bruce she just has to open her eyes to the option, and I am determined to open his."

"You are a good friend to her." Arella gives Diana a smile. "But I do hope you don't intend to tie her up every time you have to open hers." Diana just gives Arella a devious smile.

"Only if she proves too stubborn. You disapprove?"

"It is truly not my business to know such things." Arella shrugs.