Robin was worried about his hair and his face. Batman had given him some cool cream that he thought worked, but it usually took a couple of days and he couldn't be sure if it was the cream or just, you know, time passing. The pimple he had now was brand new, and he rubbed the Bat-cream slowly and sadly into it. How many days would it take? Maybe he would get into a fight tonight, he thought. Maybe I'll let them punch me in the face and people will think it's a fight-thing and not a zit thing. He closed his eyes and imagined a bunch of guys in hats punching him in the pimples.
He smelled Raven before he saw her. His senses were excellent. She used that teleportation thing where she is just there when she wasn't there a second ago. It's not like when Batman does it. Like when Batman does it, you can imagine the whole journey from where he started to where he ended up in front of you. Like, he used ropes and things. With Raven, it was like, she could have been in some kind of dimension where rocks have faces and stuff and everything is on fire and then, ka-doosh, she's on the roof with you and maybe looking at your new haircut which you don't think turned out right. Hey, he said. Hello, she said back. She never said hey the way other kids did. She always said hello like an adult. Robin had heard she'd had, like, a teacher for a dad. She asked him how he was doing, and he looked down at the floor which was also the roof of a building. That was something he thought about sometimes, how for him it was a floor, but for the people inside, beneath him, it was a ceiling. He said he was doing cool. She was like, I am glad you are well. He could see his reflection in that bead in her head. He didn't think he looked so bad. She disappeared again. He smelled that she was gone. A green cat came up to him and was like, duuude. It was Changeling and not a real cat. Robin knew because it was talking. Hey, said Robin. Duuuude, said Changeling and turned into a different kind of cat but, Robin noticed, still a green one. Robin said he knew what Changeling meant, and Changeling turned into a green lion and was like, cool hair, bro, and Robin wasn't sure if he meant it, but he thought maybe he did mean it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Unique Geek" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/theuniquegeek?hl=en.
