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Trowa has a cup of coffee and a seat on one of the couches. He looks like he's splitting his attention evenly between the coffee and idly watching the room.

(In actuality, that split is a lot less equal.)

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Steph sips her milkshake thoughtfully, still quite cheerful.

"On the other hand, if I ask him, and he is evil these days, what's he going to say? And if I ask him and he's not evil, he'd probably be offended. Maybe. Or maybe not, I guess. I don't know. I'd be offended, but I'm the one with the temper, and he's a real hero, so I guess it'd be different for him."

Apparently Trowa's participation is not necessary for the conversation to keep going!

Trowa gets along quite well with people who do all the conversational heavy lifting! For further evidence, see his sister.

He listens to this soliloquy without reaction, except for a brief sidelong glance at the beginning.

"Do people go evil a lot in your world?"

Her terminology. Trowa does not, however, believe in audible quote marks.

"More than you'd expect," Steph says, and grins suddenly. "Less than the media thinks."

Trowa does not grin back, but Cass might spot the amusement.

"It makes a good story."

Cynicism, thy name is Trowa Barton.

"Especially if it's Superman." Steph balances her milkshake glass on her knee, realises that won't last, and leans over to set it on the table nearest. "I'm pretty sure they all think Batman's evil already, T-- Robin said something about that once, but that was a while ago."

Up to date on DC canon, Steph is not it.

"Man, I haven't read a newspaper for ages."

Trowa, who follows his own world's news with the obsessive frequency of the paranoid, is making a note of all these names.

What he says, though, is "Oh?"

It's probably to the part about Batman being evil. But he'll accept any answer Steph opts for.

"Doesn't seem all that relevant," Steph explains cheerfully. "If it doesn't affect my friends, then I don't want to know about it, you know? Otherwise it's all the end of the world and people exploding and"

(that time she looked in on her mother from the Rock of Eternity and didn't like what she saw and)

"you know, it just gets really tiring after a while. Dead and all."

Ah. That would affect the situation, yes.

Trowa acknowledges, with briefly lowered eyelids and perhaps an infinitesimal head-tilt, that this is fair enough.

Steph decides she likes him. He reminds her of Batman, only, yes, with better hair.

"I'm pretty sure they'd let me know if anything huge happened, though. Probably." She considers.

"If people knew, anyway. So hey, where are you from? An earth place?"

"L3." Mostly.

"It's a colony orbiting Earth," he adds. Bonus words for the congenial Bat-person!

THAT IS SO COOL, says Steph's expression, with rather a lot of emphasis.

"Like, in space? That is seriously awesome!"

"In space," Trowa agrees.

Even by Trowa standards, this isn't really a smile - but the amusement might be a little more transparent than before.

"Wow. Was it much like here? Different? Better? What's it like being here instead? Do you go back often?"

"Here or Earth?"

Clarification before answers!

He could clarify while answering, but that would require using extra words.

"I meant Earth," Steph says, and considers her words, "but both! Answer for both."

"I'm in the circus. We tour Earth too."

Beat.

"I'm not Bound," he adds.

By Trowa standards, this is practically a monologue!

"The colonies are a lot more enclosed." This isn't said with any particular weight; Trowa likes them both. It's just a fact.

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