#also for some reason my NPC sounded a little like Joe Hills in my head

[asexualbert]

Finally had the motivation to write something, here's a blurb that came into my brain which I needed to toss out into the void.

There's so much context for this universe and you get none. This takes place like, right in the middle of this AU which I've talked about not at all. Anyway, enjoy.

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"You gotta believe me Mr Batman, sir. I really didn't know, at the time I mean, that they'd been human people and all.

"Didn't much like that they was treating animals like that either but... Job's a job you know. Don't always have much option, an' with my wife back home an' my Millie..."

The man kept talking, but Bruce wasn't paying attention; the begging really wasn't necessary, and his mind had caught on something Hill had said.

They'd been human

Past tense, he'd used. The implication that they no longer were was clear as day.

It should have struck him as wrong, as an ignorant idea but...

His eyes wandered back to the glass behind them, taking in the two children, his miraculously living son and the small boy in his arms, curled up in a pitiful nest of old sheets on the ground.

Taking in his eldest, sitting on the floor, a wide berth between himself and his younger brother, nursing the wound on his forearm.

Bruce caught himself wondering...

Was it true?