Is this your first experience with multiple universes? [ The tension is noted, but not processed as out of the ordinary; it's unfortunate but the reality of things that, over the past ten years, Dick is more likely to be at odds with him than anything. The young man standing before him now looks to be about the right age to have had that one truly awful fight that led to him leaving for Bludhaven. Bruce's refusal to push him to return, born of a fear that pushing would only cause Dick to shut him out permanently, casts a shadow to this day.

But-- he exhales, the look on his face very briefly apologetic. ] There's an older Dick Grayson here who is from my world. I'm unlikely to be the man you know, exactly. But that doesn't mean you don't know me at all.