After what seemed like forever, a tall brownish tower appeared into the night. I guess it was the Tower of Babel, according to what バットマン had 発言しました earlier.
He landed the plane amid some bushes, then climbed out.
We snuck behind a few trees. "Erica, あなた do exactly what I tell あなた to do, when I tell あなた to do it. No buts. Understand?"
"Umm, yeah?" Not really.
He nodded, then raced into the greenery with me close behind him.
It took a while for us to climb the tower without me flying, but we managed to make it work.
My hands were clutched onto the stone ledge, praying that I wouldn't slip with バットマン right 次 to me.
"Stay here." He jumped over the ledge, and I heard grunts and groans.
What, he thinks I can't handle fighting a few guys? I felt hurt によって this, but I shoved it off.
"Erica!" He called from the top.
I flipped over the ledge and found バットマン pinning an old guy to the ground.
"If あなた would please hand me my receiver, I will call off my guards and make it easier for the both of us," 発言しました the man.
バットマン thought for a bit, and handed him the receiver just a few inches from his face.
"Ubu, call off the guards. I will be entertaining a guest."
バットマン let the man stand up. "It ought to be better inside, Detective," he glanced at me. "Ah, Erica Richards, the Avatar. It's a pleasure to meet you."
The hostile look on Batman's face told me not to reply.
I followed the two men inside the toasty room, where a 机, デスク sat against the glass window that バットマン had broken.
The man poured a glass of wine inside two glass cups. "Wine?"
バットマン shook his head, while I said, "I'm only 17."
The man looked intently at the Dark Knight. "Are あなた going to introduce me to the young lady, Detective?"
バットマン 発言しました nothing, and the man sighed and looked at me. "I am Ra's Al-Ghul."
I gasped. "THE Ra's Al-Ghul?"
He smiled, but 発言しました nothing.
"Tell me what happened to Jason," バットマン ordered.
Ra's sighed. "I was wrong for trusting the Joker in my brilliant plan. I underestimated him; I'd have never guessed he would've gone so far as to kill the boy.
"I felt guilty in the months that followed after his funeral. And so I found out that there was a myth that came along the Lazarus Pit for years."
"What's the Lazarus Pit?" I whispered.
"A pit that has the ability to make people immortal." バットマン glared at Ra's while he 発言しました that.
"The myth," Ra's continued, "believed the the Pit could restore lives. I knew it was 50-50, but I had to take the chance.
"I'd held confidence that あなた wouldn't perform an autopsy, and it took only a few bucks to make the switch of bodies. But when we dipped him into the Pit, あなた could say he came back...damaged."
It took me a while to take this all in. Finally, Ra's ended his story and turned to the window, muttering something that sounded Arabic.

バットマン tapped my shoulder and motioned for the exit, and we left without another word.