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Let me check my calendar.

It's a blank piece of paper. I guess that means I'm free.

[Snort.]

See you in five.

[He can be found waiting on housing block six's rooftop three minutes after hanging up, casually lurking just out of sight of the typical pedestrian as he waits for Kon to come out.]

See me where in--

[Fine, then. Don't tell Kon where to meet you. Kon complains about Robins to whoever is in the room with him, and by the time he has finished bitching and has floated himself out the window and up to the roof to scan the surrounding area for suspicious movements in the shadows, he glances behind himself to see--]

AH!

Don't do that!

[Seriously Kon, he wasn't even trying to hide. He hadn't even completely melted into the dark parts of the roof to be nice.

He can't resist smirking as he stands, the light giving shape to his form and separating him from the shadows.]

Do what?

You know what you did!

[Kon has got complacent. His Robin senses are way down. Rather than admit that he has got sloppy in his old age, however, Kon is going to blame Tim.]

So -- tour? What haven't you seen yet?

[The only response Kon gets is a wider smirk.

Last night's tour was pretty good, but there's still plenty to check out. He thinks about letting Kon choose their first destination, but after talking with everyone yesterday it would be stupid not to prepare for being stuck here long term.]

Let's start at the garden you're working on.

[It's impossible to miss the teasing glint in his eye even if his smile is perfectly innocent.]

[Kon knows he's being teased. He just can't prove it.]

Reluctantly working on.

[But that's not going to stop him from grabbing for Tim's hand even as he starts to pull himself into the sky.]

Hope you like looking at dirt.

[He makes a noise that sounds suspiciously like "uh huh" and returns the grasp easily, cape fluttering in the wind as they fly over the housing area.]

[Since the garden surrounds the well, it doesn't take them more than a few minutes to reach, Kon lightly touching down.]

Ta-dah! Today's harvest -- well, we got some nice soil.

[Kon waves a hand over the beginnings of Wan's garden. In some places (those that Amaterasu ran over), green things are starting to show, but for the most part, all that is visible are raised heaps of dirt.]

Like the grass seed? I scattered it.

[Once they touch down he lets go of Kon to take a look around, feet padding softly through the dirt. It seems promising, if slow. It isn't an option for Bart, unfortunately. Possibly in the long run, but for now, he'll have to scratch it off the list of possibilities.]

It's nice. What else have you guys planted?

Uh. Plants, I guess. [Thanks, Kon.] Wan had a whole bunch of seed packets. Maybe he left them around the place somewhere.

[Good job, Kon. Slow clap for you.]

Are they the little green things or the piles of brown everywhere?

[It figures Kon wouldn't pay attention. He'll ask Wan later.]

You have to be a little more specific here, SB.

Both. [Kon is unimpressed. Seriously, Tim. You know that plants come in both green and piles of brown varieties.]

Some of column A and some of column B.

And as long as Wan knows what he's doing, it's cool. I'm not even his only assistant.

[Rude Kon, don't deliberately misunderstand him. He'll just roll his eyes and continue looking around at the garden because it has to be more informative than his friend.]

I was starting to wonder about his judgement.

[If you squint that could be a request to elaborate on who the other assistants are.]

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[Wait did Tim expect actual information? Think, what would Future Kon do?]

Look, we only just got this thing started. I'm still learning the roots. But we got Kal, a bunch of the new guys and a magic wolf helping out.

[Okay, Kon sounds a little defensive. He knows it's hard to do anything in Haven, so maybe Kon needs a little encouragement.]

I know, and it looks great so far. Do you know who the new guys and the magic wolf are? If not, it's fine. I'm planning on talking to Wan later.

[Not sure how to take "magic wolf", but he's going to roll with it.]

No, I don't. It's --

[Okay, he has already said too much. Now Tim knows that there is something to know, he is not going to stop until he knows what it is. Trained by the world's greatest jewish housewife or whatever.]

Okay, so you remember Apokolips and after and how we were supposed to be debriefed but instead I blew everyone off and disappeared by myself? I wound up in the corn belt where I took a ten hour nap.

That's -- been happening again. Like, Haven does something bad, it's cool, I deal, everyone's all 'wow, Kon, you're so great,' and I'm all 'yeah, I know.' And then a couple of days later, it is a struggle to get out of bed at all. Or -- talk to people. Or care about anyone not immediately in my face and demanding my attention.

You know the feeling? So I haven't really been that social lately.

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