Chapter 113: Kassandra Cain
"Barbara?"
Dean nodded knowingly, not expecting that Barbara would have time to be a language teacher for the poor mute girl in addition to completing her work in the library during the day and being a chivalrous performer at night for the Batgirl.
At this point, the mute girl turned the book up again, pointed to Kassandra and looked at Dean, and then at herself.
'Kassandra, is that your name?' ’
Dean asked strangely with a gesture, he saw that Kassandra had a very Asian face, and he thought he would hear a familiar name, but he didn't expect it to be a proper American name.
'What about your last name?' ’
Suddenly, Kassandra's face became complicated, regret, pain, resentment, shame, nostalgia, reminiscence...... It's hard to imagine a teenage girl having such a heavy facial expression.
Just as Dean wondered if he had asked something superfluous, Kassandra's face returned to normal and she continued to flip through the book.
'Cain, that's my last name, Kassandra Cain is my full name. ’
Dean thought for a moment, pulled out a pen from his body, then pulled out another piece of paper, and wrote "Dean Suston" on it.
That's my name. ’
Dean followed Kassandra's example and pointed to himself, then to the words on the paper.
Are we friends, then? ’
Kassandra gestured at Dean expectantly.
Barbara said that exchanging names is the first step to becoming friends. ’
Not yet, but maybe in the future, making friends is not so simple. ’
Dean shook his head slightly and responded.
You have to get to know someone before you can be friends with them. ’
Kassandra nodded in understanding.
Then the two began to talk in sign language or by writing and drawing on paper.
However, because Kassandra had not studied systematically, her language foundation was very poor, and the number of words she knew was very rare, so it was difficult to even read, let alone write.
So she usually uses graffiti to express her heart, some ideas that are not easy to express with gestures, but it is difficult for ordinary people to understand that kind of graffiti.
Unfortunately, Dean is a magician.
As a magician, the ability to observe one's heart and figure out the thoughts of others is essential, and it is natural to understand graffiti.
That's right, the magician is such a universal excuse, how can you deal with it?
The conversation between the two started with Barbara, after all, they both knew each other.
According to Kassandra...... Gesture? Gestures plus graffiti?
Whatever! In short, in Kassandra's description, Barbara takes special care of her every time she comes to the library because she can't speak.
Sometimes, in order to answer her questions, Barbara does not hesitate to put off many daily tasks.
There were very few people in the library, even fewer who knew sign language, and there were even people who were born to discriminate against people with disabilities.
And among the staff in the library, Barbra is the only one who knows sign language, so she is basically the only one who can help Kassandra, and she is willing to help.
For this, Kassandra is grateful to Barbra and relies on her, because it is the first time in so many years that she has met someone who has been so kind to her.
Kassandra was a street child who claimed to have been to a lot of places, but she obviously didn't really want to talk about the past, and Dean wasn't a curious baby and didn't ask too much about it.
Plus Kassandra is a bit ...... Social fear? Every time she came to the library, she would find a place with few people.
That's why she and Dean sat together, because they had the same high level of seating and the library seating wasn't a single seat, but a large table with a circle of small chairs.
When Kassandra sat across from Dean before, there was actually a lot of separation between the two of them.
As the conversation deepened, Dean had a faint feeling that Kassandra was very optimistic in nature, and that the performance of social phobia was not inferior because she couldn't speak, but simply had too little contact with others and didn't know how to communicate with people.
In fact, Dean felt that Kassandra didn't really think that not being able to speak was a flaw at all, it was just that it was just inconvenient to communicate.
In the process, Dean also showed Kassandra a few little magic tricks, but to his distress, the girl looked at him with innocent eyes from beginning to end, without the slightest surprise.
Dean even began to wonder if his craft had regressed......
"Anyway, I don't seem to see Barbara today."
'Chatting' and 'chatting', Dean suddenly remembered something and looked around the library, and then looked at the sky outside.
"It's not dark yet, so it shouldn't be the time for the bat girl to appear, and it's not time for the library to get off work yet, so it's not a day off."
Dean touched his chin, "Could it be that Barbara has been sitting in her office all day today blowing the air conditioner?" It doesn't feel like her style. ”
With Barbara's warm-heartedness, Kassandra is here today, and she will definitely come over to teach her to read when she has time.
At this moment, a librarian walked not far away, pushing a cart full of various books.
Dean stretched out his hand to stop him and politely asked, "Sir, can you ask if Miss Barbara Gordon is here?" ”
The administrator was surprised to hear Dean's question.
"You know Director Gordon?"
"Yes, we are friends with Barbara."
Dean nodded.
"I'm sorry, Director Gordon took sick leave today, I heard that she fell from the upstairs when she came home last night, and is now in the hospital, if you want to find her, you will have to go to Gotham General Hospital."
The librarian sighed and said, "I really hope she's okay, otherwise she won't be able to work every day." ”
A faint glint flashed in Dean's eyes.
The Gordon family, like the Dean family, was a single-family house with only a difference in size, while the Gordon family had only two floors.
Will the Bat Girl fall down two floors? And threw yourself into the hospital?
He didn't believe that kind of nonsense.
"I'm afraid I was injured in the battle."
Dean thought to himself.
'I'd like to visit Barbara in the hospital, can you come along?' ’
Kassandra suddenly walked up to Dean and gestured with her hands a few times with some concern.
'Isn't Barbara your friend?' ’
Before Dean could react, Kassandra suddenly made several gestures in quick succession with an apologetic face.
'Oh, I'm sorry if you have anything else......
Seeing this, Dean smiled and shook his head.
I'm going with you, and I'm worried about Barbara's injuries. ’
He remembered that the neighborhood where the bat girls frequented most was the Upper West Side, and that the Upper West Side was most famous for the urban legend of the "Bat Monster" recently.
Now that Barbara is suddenly injured and hospitalized, is there a possible connection between the two?
Regarding Kassan's age, Kasan first appeared in the Borderlands, when she was 17 years old, we all know that the Borderlands happened when Tim was about 15 years old, Tim was Robin at the age of 13, Jason died a few months ago, and Jason was only Robin for two years before he died, Dick was a nightwing and Jason replaced Robin within a few months, Dick served as Robin for the longest time, about 4 to 5 years, although there is definitely a huge time bug in this, But it's barely a relatively acceptable age difference in the Bat family, and the current point in time of this article is a year to half a year ago when Dick flew solo as Nightwing, and according to the Borderlands Kasan is 17 years old, under normal circumstances, Kasan should be around 12 years old now, so I'm writing about 2 years older about Kasan here, but I promise it won't affect any plot at all
Also,This book will absolutely, absolutely, never write any DC movies.,And absolutely, absolutely never use any DC movie characters.,I know that there are a lot of people who like to direct movies.,But I'm sorry.,According to the timeline,The plot of the Zhenglian version of the director has ended several years ago in this article.
(End of chapter)