8419/The Best Embassy

The Best Embassy
Date of Scene:	20 July 2019
Location:	Themysciran Embassy
Synopsis:	Batman visits Diana at her home to give her a phone and ask her a favor.
Cast of Characters:	Batman, Wonder Woman

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Batman has posed:
The Batman often demands of heroes and villains alike that they stay out of Gotham, considering the forbidden island his own sinister fiefdom. There are a number of masked do-gooders who can recount a gruff encounter with the Dark Knight to that effect. It is perhaps, then, patently unfair that he shows up in other cities often without warning and adheres to the same territorial attitudes.

A warm summer breeze sweeps in through the open doors of the second floor balcony, setting the curtains to waft and the waning moon casts enough pale light to see by. The Embassy itself somehow manages to sit apart from the noise and fuss of the city on a hot night, an island of tranquility in the middle of Manhattan.

Wonder Woman has posed:
Diana is up, she's generally always awake. She only needs a few hours of sleep every two or three days. As such, the lights inside the room that Batman arrives o nthe balcony of are on. The Princess? She's inside the room, that room is her personal quarters between her bedroom and her office. She's seated at the small table there-in with her laptop resting on it, dressed in a white silken robe, her dark hair tied back behind her head.

She can hear him land, her senses are primed like few others, like the demi goddess that she is. So when he arrives she glances over her right shoulder and then back to her laptop. After a moment she closes out the IM conversation she was having with a friend from Paris and she moves to stand up.

The Princess starts to walk toward the Balcony, the sounds of Manhattan audible outside. Batman has Gotham, Superman Metropolis, and Diana was proud to call New York her home... unofficial territories for them to individually watch over here in the United States.

Once outside, she steps to the railing and places her hands upon it, she then looks over to where she knows he is and she just gives him a light smile. "What brings you out this way?" She asks the Dark Knight, her greek accented voice is calm and smoky as ever.

Batman has posed:
When Batman speaks, his voice is clipped and brusque. A slighter deeper affectation than how he speaks as Bruce Wayne, and the way he carries himself is enough to make the similarities difficult to spot at best. Yet even with Diana, who knows who he is beneath the cowl and has known for years, he maintains it. As though the voice and look of the Dark Knight were the true face, and all other attempts at normalcy a mere charade.

"I want to talk," he explains, his fingers clasping some narrow crevice in the wall that even an expert rock climber would have difficult clinging to. When he's spotted, he lets himself drop and lands in a crouch alongside her with little more than the hushed whisper of his cape.

"I have a -" he hesitates a moment, though on the outside he simply remains there with his mouth set in a grim line, "- favor to ask."

Wonder Woman has posed:
Diana hears this odd turn of events come from the Batman and she turns around to face him fully, keeping her right hand on the railing of the balcony's edge over looking the street outside.

"Oh?" She asks him. "Are you planning to bring another child to my doorstep to ask me to raise them for you?" She asks, referring back to something from two years ago where he'd brought Cassandra Cain to her for training and... living, and schooling, and taking out to get clothes, and everything else.

She follows that quip up with a soft smirk. "You know that I am happy to help you however I can. What is it?" She asks then of his request for her.

Batman has posed:
"No children this time," Batman turns his head slightly once and to the right, the bare minimum of a shake, "Although I have two new recruits who could use training. Three, really. Lessons in hand-to-hand combat. Swordplay. If you're willing to help."

For his part he does not move, remaining exactly where he landed save for rising to his feet and drawing his cape around himself. He is almost a statue. There is no unnecessary motion as he regards the Amazon through the impassive white eyelets of his cowl.

"This is different. Not an 'in uniform' favor. I need your celebrity status."

Wonder Woman has posed:
Diana gives a light smile to the first part of what he says in response to her and then the bit about training she does dip her chin in a gentle nod. "I have more Amazonian sisters here now than ever. Six in total. We are capable of training at a very high level with those kinds of numbers. We have quite a class of students at the Arts Center." She's speaking of the Themysciran Arts Center which is on the other side of the small park from this very same building. Its a facility where the public can come and immerse themselves in Themysciran culture and take classes in its arts. The fighting / sparring courses are the most popular of course!

"My celebrity, status?" She asks him then. There's a small growing grin and Diana lowers her hand from the railing to place them both together with her fingers interlacing between one another. "How precisely can I help you with that then?" She asks of the Bat, but more specifically the man behind the Bat.

Batman has posed:
"Bruce Wayne," Batman explains, as though the man were someone entirely separate from him despite the absence of secrets between the pair, "is hosting a charity benefit for the Gotham City Police. Corruption's rife inthe GCPD but the hope is with enough money flowing through, it either won't be tampered with or if it is I'll have an easy trace to the heart of it. Cut out the tumor and spare the body."

His cowled head shifts again, turning to look out over the parkland that makes up the grounds of the Themysciran embassy, "Part of the benefit is an auction. Bid on an evening's entertainment with different people. Dinner, a show, light conversation. No other obligations. Already have Bruce Wayne, Selina Kyle ... "

He turns back to give her a pointed look.

Wonder Woman has posed:
Charity events are something Diana is used to. She just did one in the park earlier this past week for a Children's Fund. So the first part of what he says does indeed make her smile softly but its the second part that makes that smile blossom into a much larger display of amusement, and entertainment of her own.

She glances away toward the city to her right and then looks back to him a moment later. "So I am to be sold to the highest bidder and made to converse with whomever happens to throw down the largest sum of money?" She asks, quirking a dark and slender eyebrow above her right eye.

"You do realize just how horribly mismatched such a tempting of the fates could be, yes? I could end up with someone who I am forced to fling through a wall." She's clearly in a good mood tonight, just being a bit playful and fun with this favor asked of her.

Batman has posed:
Batman lifts his shoulders in a shrug. Batman shrugged. That was a shrug from Batman. It seems he might also be in a good mood for the evening.

"Throw them through a wall if you have to," he says, "As long as the cheque clears, they paid for the experience. You're well known as a woman with phenomenal abilites and strength - the rich fool who angers you should have known better. I know you're not liable to do property damage without just cause."

A slight quirk at the corner of his mouth indicates about as close to a smile as he typically will go, "The cause is good. Would be a favor to me."

Wonder Woman has posed:
Diana expression goes from a teasing smirk to a soft and warming warmth of a warm smile.

"Of course I will do it." She says then. "Because it is you. It will be... interesting, to say the least. I am curious to know how it goes, truth be told."

So she draws in a breath and gives a glance to the west off of the balcony. "So when is this event?" She asks of him next then as her blue eyes return back to his covered white own.

"Or you can just simply send me all of the relevant details. Whatever is best for you. I am just glad to have received such an up close and personal invitation. Not often do I see you after all."

Batman has posed:
"Still in the planning stages," Batman explains, "Overall theme is winter given the heat. Ice. Furs. Snowmen. I'll keep you apprised of the details as we go, make sure you're entirely on board and won't cause any issues or scheduling conflicts."

His head tilts a fraction of an inch forward in something resembling a nod, "Thought it would be better to ask you in person than send someone or do it in disguise. Gotham's kept - is keeping - me busy, but I also wanted you to know I'm still on your side. If you need my help. Brought you a gift, actually. A token of friendship."

He reaches into his utility belt, the way the shadows cling to him providing no easy way to see just where he kept this gift. When he holds his hand out to her, a piece of what looks to be rectangular glass lays flat across his palm. A small, serifed W engraved in the bottom - the recognizable corporate logo of Wayne Enterprises and its subsidiaries.

"Not released yet. Thought you might appreciate it."

As soon as the Amazon lays hands upon it, the glass illuminates to show a semi-holographic display with date, time, and a cinemagraph photograph of the New York City skyline.

Wonder Woman has posed:
Diana shows a mixture of emotions as he talks to her about the party and so forth. But when the gift is handed over to her she accepts it and when it comes to life she just holds it between both of her hands, cupping it gently in her palms and fingers.

A smile spreads over her red lips and she looks up to him. "It is beautiful." She says to him in an honest response. "I look forward to poking around on it." She lets her smile turn into a slight grin.

"I must say that I really enjoy hearing you describe parties when you are in your uniform too. There is a contrast there that is... quite entertaining for me." Now she's just teasing him, as she does, and she knows full well he's probably going to jet away any second now, unable to take that kind of gentle good natured ribbing!

Batman has posed:
"Hnh," the Bat grunts, withdrawing his hand back within his cape and drawing it back about himself to become something akin to a pillar of shadow once again, "Should hear me give the recipe for French vanilla cheesecake. Take one packet sweet cookies, one pat of butter ... "

For a moment the whites of his teeth flash, the ribbing bringing out a brief but nevertheless visible grin from the Dark Knight. When it's faded away again, he nods at the phone.

"Took the initiative to add a few apps on there for you, but it's an open system and works well with most existing software. Don't throw it through a wall, since you can't buy a replacement yet."

Wonder Woman has posed:
All of this just amuses the Princess to no end. "Someone is in a good mood tonight." She tells him as she glances down to the phone again. Part of her wonders if there's all kinds of surveillance software loaded onto it, she does know who he is after all... but she doesn't care, Diana Prince doesn't really hide much after all.

"I will treasure it for as long as I am." She tells him of the phone.

"You are welcome to come in and help me cook up a batch of this recipe you speak of... You do know I have a bit of a sweet tooth after all." Once more she grins to the Dark Knight / Phone Delivery Man and she gives the glass device a slight swipe with her thumb to look and see what all it has on it already.

Batman has posed:
Batman watches as the phone lights up, the swipe does not change the screen but rather projects two holographic sceens on either side of it with a menu list of apps on display. The talk of a good mood is met with another slight inclination of his head. For a moment he looks back towards the interior of the Embassy, considering the question in silence.

"Can't stay," he says at last, tone slightly more gruff as he takes a step back towards the dark edges of the balcony itself, "But I'll send you the recipe. Alfred's own."

Wonder Woman has posed:
The holographic display is observed and Diana gently nods her head to it. She's seen things like this before, but not quite in such a small package per-se. She gives it a cursory look before she looks back up to him as he turns down her offer to stay. She knew he would after all, he always does.

"Fair enough." She responds in a soft tone as she turns back toward the interior of her Embassy and NY home. She of course has the Consulate in Metropolis, which is much larger than this... but its more of a museum of Themysciran art--mostly recovered pieces from around the world.

"Thank you again for the invite. I am now looking forward to being auctioned off." Diana says to the Bat, offering him a little smile before she moves to go back inside. "Goodnight, Knight." She says to him then, still holding his fancy new phone up as she goes, illuminating her face in its glowy fanciness.