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Nitro looks up at Richard meowing sadly as he hangs up the phone. He can sense his mistress' growing distress.
Richard looks down at the cat. "Did Raven send you all this way to let me know she is in trouble?" He watches as the cat looks up at him with a sad little pout. "You could communicate with her...maybe not in words but at least through feelings right? You want to help now but you can't talk to me like you could to her huh? Don't worry we will find her...I promise."
He meows a bit more hopeful this time as Richard picks up the phone again.
"One more call...and a little packing then we'll be on our way." Richard waits for someone to pick up at the local office of Wayne Tech. "This is Grayson...have the jet fueled and waiting. I have to make an emergency trip to Jump City ASAP."
The cat follows Richard into the hidden room where he begins his packing for this trip.
Richard looks down as he gathers his gear to find the cat staring up at the picture of the team on the wall. He finds himself wondering what became of all the others and out of all of them just why this cat came to him and not one of them. "She and I used to have a bond." Richard jumps startled as he answers his slient musings.
Nitro turns looking up Richard.
"I guess its faded with time and distance...I should have known she was in trouble though. I should have sensed it somehow." He mentally retraces his steps over the last few weeks looking for any sign no matter how small that he may have missed.
The cat can't tell him that she could only muster the strength to reach one of them and she is much to far away from the young man to reach him...it was all she could do he fears to open his cage at the pound with her powers to let him out when she instructed him to find the one time Robin.
Darkness all around, cold, infinate, yet suffocating at the same time. Raven finds herself falling through the bottomless abyss. She would give anything to at least be safetly on one of the floating asteroids of her dark mindscape. She screams in frustration as she is unable to summon her powers to end this nightmare. A part of her would even rather be dead and damned to the fiery pits of hell than falling through this neverending void. Was this what happened to Dr. Light she wonders. If so she can understand why he became so terrified of her. Falling, falling, always falling if she ever makes it out of this she is sure that she would never be able to use her powers of levitation for flight again in fear of falling.
Richard looks down at the cat as he becomes frantic again. "You feel her don't you?" Richard realizes that the cat shares what he once did with Raven. He wishes his connection with his friend were still that strong. He has a feeling that finding her isn't going to be so easy. "If you can somehow make her hear you then let her know that we are coming to find her."
The cat calms gazing up at Richard a moment before closing his eyes and bowing his head.
Raven cries out suddenly as the sensation of falling ceases. For the first time she dares to hope this will finally end as she senses Nitro has found Robin and they are coming for her.
He looks down at the cat who seems to be in a trance now. Richard picks him up along with his gear and locks the hidden room. He throws the gear along with some clothes into a suitcase. To avoid the problem of getting out of a building that doesn't allow pets, Richard takes the shortcut down the fire escape and hails a cab.