EXTRA
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Dick hurried through the corridors of the Titan Tower. He thanked him in silence for not seeing anyone on the way - if it was due to the time. When he finally arrived at the room of the old girlfriend, whose door was ajar, he allowed himself to take a deep breath and seek some calm before asking:
— What happened?
Starfire, who was standing looking out the window, did not move a muscle to answer:
— You who need to answer that.
— Starfire, I shouldn't even have come here, Batman needs help and we were in the middle of one...!
— Batman or Damian? — she interrupted him. Tom was serious and heavy, denouncing the irritation contained — Were you fighting crime or playing with your brother, Dick!?
— ... Starfire... — He closed the door, he wanted to guarantee that that conversation would not leave — Kori, I know what you must be thinking, but...
— How long!?
— ... Two weeks, practically — He stared at the floor.
The alien let out a heavy sigh, ran her hands through her hair and then placed them against the window glass. She murmured a few things in her native language, which seemed to be whining.
— You made me accept that Damian would never wake up...!
— Kori...! — Dick tried to interrupt her, but that was enough for her to finally face him - she was about to hit him with her eye powers.
— Made me feel guilty!
— I didn't mean it... I was sad, devastated!
— And I don't!? — The intensity of the green of her eyes started to decrease, indicating both that she would not attack him anymore and the sadness overcoming other feelings — Since that day I have not accepted to lead anything else, I have rethought my place here... I do not I was a worthy companion, none of us was! You made me believe that he would die because I didn't trust him!
— Nobody trusted him, not even me... — he whispered.
— But I trusted you! — She approached a few steps — I endured her sadness for months! I took it all because I felt guilty! And you... you... — She tried to look for a word, but nervousness stopped her — He woke up two weeks ago and you kept making me suffer, Dick!
The alien approached, attacked him - lucky for him that the people of Tamaran have their abilities triggered by feelings and that Starfire's sadness was greater than his anger. She hit him while she succeeded, while there was still some trace of the inexhaustible energy that, by contradiction, was at the end. When she was quiet again, she no longer wanted to look him in the eye, she preferred to walk and watch the view through the window again, in silence.
— I did not lie: Damian is not yet awake... — his tone was harsh, it was necessary for Kori to face him again — What woke up was a child who does not remember anything, who cries for everything and got to the point to like Jason more than me... — despite some grace at the end, he let the sadness show in his voice — The Damian we knew didn't wake up and I don't even know if he will ever wake up... — He sighed and he continued, shaking and tearful: — ... and even if he wakes up, he won't be able to be Robin again...
— ... Why? — she whispered.
— It happened right after he woke up, when we started to celebrate... — Dick if he allowed himself to sit on the bedroom sofa, it would be a long story — It was when we noticed that he had lost his memory.
— Raven can solve this, I do not understand the reluctance to receive help and... — Before she managed to finish, Richard interrupted her with tears already getting out of control:
— He was nervous and had the first seizure... he has horrible epileptic seizures! There were several, several!
— ... I don't understand... — Kori finally disarmed the resistance and, despite being very hurt, sat down next to him. She wanted more information about her former crime-fighting companion: — Is epilepsy a disease, a mental illness? Something Raven can't fix?
— ... Let's say yes...
And so he started to unravel everything that happened to Damian since the child woke up. He explained about that illness, about the crises... about how everyone had already accepted that ending for Robin.
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NOTE
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Titan Tower, that huge T-shaped building that is one of the most eye-catching superhero havens I have ever seen, was originally designed by the excellent Silas Stone and then remodeled by his son, Victor Stone - who would be the own my heart, if I had one.
I am not going to go into details about this tower because, like much of the map that DC has, it is constantly being altered, destroyed and reconstructed. We are going to make a consensus that some occupants live entirely inside this tower, as is the case of Starfire.
Now let's talk about one of Raven's greatest powers and one that is usually very poorly exploited: healing. Yes, Raven has healing power, in addition to all the other various powers that make her one of the strongest heroines and, unfortunately, underused (my opinion. Honestly, they focus too much on teenage doubts and darkness, forget that she is part of the light too).
I'm going to give a very poor explanation of her healing power, because I barely remember seeing her using it: she can heal the person in seconds by taking the patient's "pain" for herself, in a much more abstract sense of the word than it could be. I believe they tried to link this to the fact that she is an empath - which, incidentally, can make people feel things like "calm" and even "falling in love with her" (people, why haven't they created a fanfiction where she unintentionally falls in love with herself? WHY!? I will have to do this alone!?).
