[The brightening of her expression makes him a smile a bit in return, and he quickly set to work imitating both sets of signs with his hands to commit them to memory-- My age, your age, my age, your age.
The gestures were good for putting his fingers to work, keeping him from fidgeting with whatever was in front of him. But when he looks at Cass again after the intense concentration in trying to make signs, it's with surprise.]
He made you hurt people? [He knew Damian and Cass had some Bad Stuff going on before Bruce took them in, and they both had that... scary air about them. But... well that was pretty much the end of everything he knew. But even then, it's hard for him to conceive either of them-- any of heroes he was now surrounded by-- as being capable of hurting people.] Why..?
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The gestures were good for putting his fingers to work, keeping him from fidgeting with whatever was in front of him. But when he looks at Cass again after the intense concentration in trying to make signs, it's with surprise.]
He made you hurt people? [He knew Damian and Cass had some Bad Stuff going on before Bruce took them in, and they both had that... scary air about them. But... well that was pretty much the end of everything he knew. But even then, it's hard for him to conceive either of them-- any of heroes he was now surrounded by-- as being capable of hurting people.] Why..?