Together the girls returned to find everyone but Kid Flash sitting at the table. Each person had grabbed a notebook and a sheet of paper. Artemis looked up from what she was reading.
"Your sister is pretty good writer."
Alexandra snorted flipping to the next page in the journal she had been reading.
"She's a horrible writer. However, she is a wonderful story teller. When she started writing she would throw herself into them and forget to eat sometimes." She pulled the art supplies to her and began working on creating the bios of characters that already had their profiles written up. Every now and then she went back to the notebook to get a better feel for the character.
Slowly the day turned to night. The pile of papers had steadily grown while the pile of unread notebooks shrank. They were winding down to the last few when Zatanna picked up an old hard bound journal. She untied the sash around it and found instead of neat script the book was filled with symbols. She stared at them for a long moment trying to decipher the meaning but nothing came to her. If anything the symbols seemed to move around and trade place with each other. Finally giving up she handed the notebook to Alexandra. Alexandra took the journal and scanned for only a moment before handing it to Robin.
"You're the only one who can read it, the symbols will sit still for you."
Robin set aside the story he had been reading about a princess who had been turned into a cat be an evil witch. He took the journal and scanned the page, but the symbols jumped around every time he thought he had a little bit down. Robin shook his head and handed it back.
"Nope, they are moving for me too."
Alexandra blinked. She knew Jessie had taught Robin to read the language, so why weren't the letters sitting still for him? Unless Robin didn't remember learning the language and there for the notebook didn't acknowledge him. She bit her lip. Jessie wrote some of her favorite stories in this language, if they didn't find a way to read it her book would be incomplete. That could send these guys in blind against very powerful enemies and that could only end badly for them. Jessie always liked making cunning or powerful bad guys for her hero's to beat. Alexandra sighed and ran her hand through her hair in agitation.
At that moment Batman came into the room. It grated on Alexandra's nerves that he moved so quietly she missed his entrance. She glared at him before turning back to the journal in front of her.
"How is the data collection going?"
Kaldur'ahn looked to Alexandra and answered when he realized she wouldn't. "We have almost finished collecting all the different villains from the stories or those who potentially helped villains. The few notebooks that we have left are all written in a strange language and changes every time someone tries to decipher it."
Batman looked to Alexandra and stared back at him boldly.
"Can't you translate it?"
It was on the tip of her tongue to say something snarky, but between Robin warning her with his eyes and Batman glaring at her she grudgingly decided against it.
"No, my sister made the language so that only those people she taught to read it could read it. The only person she taught doesn't remember, so the language doesn't acknowledge him." Or that was her best guess.
"Do you think our enemies will have access to this information or will they be limited as well?"
Alexandra bit her lip. This was a very difficult question to answer because everything was speculation.
"I honestly can't say for sure. They may have a similar problem, but since they have Jessie they might be able to read it through her. The problem is I don't know how exactly she did this. So I can't answer for sure."
"You became Zatanna, can't you become your sister?"
"I have tried, but my sister can prevent me from becoming her. I don't think that's what's happening though. Even when she tried to prevent me from getting into her mind I can still reliably get flashes of what's happening to her; emotions, thoughts, feelings. In this case her thoughts are groggy and cloudy like she's lost deep in her own head. I think she is being kept heavily sedated. Which makes sense, even though it was her intention to spy on them my sister would cause a lot of problems for anyone trying to hold her against her will. Especially when you consider what they did to Rob-." Alexandra stopped herself short and mentally cursed herself. Robin had seen the after math of what had happened to him through her comic strip, but he still didn't know the full extent of what he had gone through at their hands. He didn't need that memory back, if she had guessed right that was one memory Jessie would try to make sure stay buried forever.
Batman nodded.
"Put together what you have then, we will have to do without it." He turned to go and Alexandra started to gather up all the pages with information on the sheets of paper and pulled the art supplies toward her. "But do that tomorrow. It won't help if you're dead on your feet."
Alexandra nodded and turned to Megan. "I don't suppose there is a spare room here I can take."
The green girl beamed and nodded.
"I took the liberty of contacting your family and telling them you'd be spending the night and getting you some clothes."
Alexandra was grateful to the Martian girl. She hadn't called her mom and told her she had left and her mom would panic if she didn't call. Alexandra suspected that even though their mother had forgotten Jessie, somewhere in her mind she was vaguely aware that she was missing something important to her.
"I can show you." She waved a hand and all of Jessie's notebooks and binders were stacked in neat piles. The art supplies were stacked on top of the sheets of paper with all the bad guy information on it. Any notebooks they had been unable to read were set in a separate pile. Then the girl floated quickly from the room with Alexandra running to keep up. Megan slowed so she could keep up and apologized profusely.
"It's alright," Alexandra said for the third or fourth time. Megan finally landed in front of a door and pushed it open. The room was large, but lacked windows. Instead the room had a giant screen with a camera view of the Happy Harbor at the base of the mountain. The town glowed with a soft light that reminded Alexandra of the suburbs just outside the city of Gotham. She turned to the small bed and desk at the other side of the room. The blankets smelt like they had been recently washed. "You cleaned in here didn't you." It was a statement that made Megan blush.
"Yes, I thought you would like it. I figured you would probably want to rest before heading home."
Not looking at Megan Alexandra replied, "I'm not going home until I find my sister."
Megan's eyebrows drew together in confusion.
"But what about school? I only informed your parents about tonight."
Alexandra shrugged.
"I'll still go to school, but I also want to bring my sister home."
Megan nodded and left Alexandra to get ready for bed.
