[ It's a full day of catching up, one that he feels is very much needed, but it doesn't take away the fact that his body is still seeking the sleep he should still be in which means that by the time the last blade has walked away, Riley is tired.
He asks then, where he might find Barbara, learns that she has in fact, been pacing in the gardens and promptly turns to Lex with the request to please indulge him a while longer, old friend: his daughter needs him. Because she is that. For where Hikaru has Tala, Barbie is his in all the ways he would have wished, had the promise of a life and family not been so tragically snatched from his fingertips. ]
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He asks then, where he might find Barbara, learns that she has in fact, been pacing in the gardens and promptly turns to Lex with the request to please indulge him a while longer, old friend: his daughter needs him. Because she is that. For where Hikaru has Tala, Barbie is his in all the ways he would have wished, had the promise of a life and family not been so tragically snatched from his fingertips. ]