It wasnt uncommon for Ciryke to get overwhelmed with her life, her emotions, the situations she was in. No matter what she could do or how good her resume seemed, she was still just a kid. She wasnt fully capable of handling her emotions, especially guilt.
Exactly what she was feeling now. In this last job she had accidently killed a child much younger than her. It wasnt entirely her fault, its much harder to focus on a large group of cops with her psyche. She didnt know there were civilians behind those cops. She didnt know there was a small child.
She couldnt help but think about all her young friends back at the academy. She wouldnt be telling them about how she had killed a kid…or really anyone. She would just make the story more kid friendly for them.
But right now, she was just gonna wait, if it was for new cops to show up or for her to be dragged off by the woman and her goons to be paid. She heard the crunch of snow behind her and she gripped the cold metal of the swing. What she didnt expect was her employer, Miss. Mary Dahl, Baby Doll, to come sit on the swing next to her. She didnt say a word, she just stared blankly at the snowy ground with her dead eyes.
It took everything Mary had to not get angry. Well, no, that was a lie. She was angry. It took everything Mary had to not let that anger be seen on the surface, and now, as she often did, she thanked twenty years’ worth of acting lessons that she managed it. Because she could feel it all burning under her skin, in the tips of her fingers and the way her hands curled into tight fists around the chains of the swing as she sat down.
Everything had gone to shit, that was for sure – and though she didn’t particularly care one way or the other who got hurt in the middle of her work, the kid’s slip up had taken it from a simple bank job to something the Bat was involved in, which Mary couldn’t tolerate. But she needed Ciryke, if only so she didn’t get snatched up by someone else; in a nicer person, that concern would have been based around fear for someone so young.
In Mary, it was that she didn’t want an asset, a weapon, of hers, to end up on someone else’s payroll.
“We can make it disappear,” she started, because she could sense that saying it didn’t matter wasn’t going to work out. “No one will have to know what happened.” That was a lie as well – people would know, but they’d damn well shut their mouth about it if they knew what was good for them.