She is stunning. She is the woman.
Bane doesn't know what he missed since her absence, but he knows he missed plenty. He never would have expected such a thing, for such adoration of her, simply because she entered womanhood.
Is that really her? Is this really the fluttering young girl who climbed free from The Pit?
Immediately he knows he cannot have her. He cannot hold her as he did when Talia was but a child.
Ra's will never let him.
Her eyes do not see him.
Bane is plainly ignored, but still, he watches. He fears he is now a monster to her, a ghost, but still he watches over her. Bane would always protect Talia, and now, he must do so from afar.
The pain he endured in the riot was nothing like the pain he endures now. She is still climbing away from Bane, and wants freedom from him.
Talia is engaged to another. Bane watches the two of them, and assumes they are in love. He sees everything, and it hurts, but he cannot bring himself to look away.
She is still everything to him.
