RP Starter (as always, anyone can interact!)
Joker wasn't there. He wasn't, Jason promised himself— even though he knew how it'd gone the last time he'd tried.
This time, he could do it. This time, he promised himself, as he crawled to the open door. The old wing was dark, creaky, and foul. Filled with a must so deep it settled in your bones, grinding against his broken ribs and shattered ankle, his swollen, twisted fingers.
If he couldn't get out, he'd break more bones. Another rib? His arm? Kill him for real?
Somehow, the thought of the latter didn't seem to scare him as much as before. It was welcoming. If he didn't make it this time, he'd die. That was a promise, too.
Good thing he never could seem to keep any promises stuck to him in this gloom.
His vision was hazy, squinting in the dark. Scrambling forward for his life, crawling with laboured breaths. He'd reached the hall.
Pain sparked in white flashes, sparkling before his eyes. He grit his teeth, trying not to yowl or freeze when his ankle hit a broken chunk of tile. It was blinding, and the breath he tried to take furthered the pain in his lungs.
He couldn't do this. But he had to. Batman wasn't coming, Batman wasn't coming, no one was coming.
Jason could barely move as he came to the corner, exerted by even this crawl. He'd barely made it out of the hallway—
Footsteps clacked behind him. Steps on wood, echoing down the dark hall. He feverishly crawled forward, terror in his veins.
This couldn't be it, he couldn't be here already—











