024 - [text]

[deductives]

A hounding color, silver's lesser sister
Has a breath along the way, a cease.
This public chariot yields a final pause
Like Schubert did in older annuals.
But this cross borne hit more than a note sooner:
And its travels are Frosted in path.

So another Gothamite leaves us with more questions than answers. I'm not sure if anyone could call themselves friends with Mr. Nygma, but he's gone, regardless. This was found carved into a table in his flat. He could have left a harder one, to be honest.

And yet, perhaps he's better off than us.

[And that's the closest he'll get to publicly acknowledging recent affairs.]

Feel free to solve it yourself.

Comments

[text]

[deductives]

[FACEPAAAAALM]

It's a riddle. The real meaning is concealed. That is the point of riddles, you know.

[voice]

[motioned]

It's not a very good riddle if you can't even figure out what it's asking, right?

[deductives]

That makes it a good riddle.

Obviously.

[motioned]

[p a u s e]

Because you have to figure out what it's asking and then figure out the answer to what it's asking? So it's like there are two parts?

[deductives]

You really are a miracle, Miss Ahiru.

[motioned]

If you meant that in a mean way, miracles are supposed to be good things, you know.

[deductives]

From your perspective, the miracle that you've survived this long on your stunted intellect is quite good.

[motioned]

Stunted—

[PAUSE

no she's not doing this]

Were you friends? With the person who left, I mean.

[deductives]

No. We simply had a mutual interest.

[motioned]

What interest was it?

[deductives]

[Moriarty, but Sherlock sure as hell isn't telling Ahiru that.]

Riddles, clearly. He claimed to be a detective as well.

[motioned]

Claimed to be? Do you think he was lying?

[deductives]

I have no way of knowing. But then again, people from Gotham haven't proven the most trustworthy, have they?

[motioned]

I don't know where that is.

[deductives]

[Having a conversation with Ahiru is like pulling teeth, but the need to have the last word is greater.]

It's where Batman and all his pleasant friends were from.

[motioned]

Oh.

Well, it's not very nice to judge someone just based on the place they're from!

[deductives]

There's judgment, and then there's making an inference from collected data.

[motioned]

But just because a few people from one world aren't trustworthy doesn't mean everyone from that world isn't!

[deductives]

I know.

[motioned]

...Then why did you say what you did before?

[deductives]

Because I meant people from Gotham who've been here. I can't say anything about who I haven't met.

[motioned]

Yeah, but you didn't know if he was or not, did you?

[deductives]

I did.

[BLOOD PRESSURE SKYROCKETING]

[motioned]

[How high can he go?? It's like the opposite of limbo.]

But you said you didn't know if he was a detective or not!

[deductives]

We were talking about people from Gotham, not specifically Gotham detectives.