` ❛ TRANSMISSION RECEIVED ˒﹚)
↳ " bruce , it's good to see you ."
from dinah ;)
[ … ] ANOTHER GALA EVENT — LIGHT SHINES OVERHEAD IN A WAY THAT CATCHES ON THE OVER-EXPENSIVE CRYSTALLINE CHANDELIER, CASTING A FEW SCATTERED RAYS THAT DRAW HIS ATTENTION. He’s done his part for the evening, given his speech, charmed what he could with his knife-curved smile, but the effects of having to play the mask of Gotham’s favourite son over the CEO he’d come here to be is exhausting in its own way. But much of the spotlight &&. curious eyes have drifted elsewhere.
He exhales deeply, the action hidden well past the ever present, unshakeable smile he keeps firmly glued in place to appear pleasant, approachable over glum &&. gloomy. Slinking back further away from the more loud &&. exciting of festivities, he feels his hackles easing back down the further he gets, expression following closely behind as he steals a sip of his drink in slow savoured peace.
The dip in his guard, the rare instance he wasn’t constantly aware of his surroundings, nearly makes him choke on his drink when he hears a familiar voice calling.
Instead, he’s the pinnacle of unbothered control, turning with a beaming grin &&. Thinly amused eyes curved to mirror along with it, as he catches the held stare of one Dinah Lance — Black Canary. As coincidental as this encounter was, he feels relief, some form of minutely stashed comfort at finding someone else from the League amidst the prim &&. overly proper chaos of another event.
No doubt invited by either Oliver or here for her own reasons, he has a feeling if it’s the former, then Queen’s too not far behind.
` “Ms. Lance! Well, this is a pleasant surprise.
How’re you enjoying the evening so far?”
His voice is a strange thing to hear, especially to his own ears at times. It feels wrong, despite the ease he feels now, too chipper, too friendly, too full of gooey overplayed emotion as he moves to close the distance with a friendly lilt of his head. It’d still take some getting used to when it came to bumping into other Leaguers out of mask &&. off duty. Sharp baby blue hues flicker across @dcyseeker‘s face in some blooming amusement as he watches her response.
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