"Y-yeah. But. The thing is." He swallows. "The reason he becomes Batman in the first place is because when he was a little kid, his parents were killed in a mugging. He was there, he saw it happen. And ... I didn't meet him here as a grown man, I met him as that little kid. Like, only a few months after. And ... all I could think was here was this hero I grew up reading about, and how cool it was that I got to meet him, and ..."

Another swallow. The old shame has never quite left him.

"I scared him. I didn't mean to."