He didn't read that book; it's a shame. He probably could have learned from it.

"I guess it just -- scares me a little," he says, voice dipping into a lower, rougher place. "Sometimes, when I take a moment to think of where I have been and what I have seen, I remember this place and the things it taught me, the people I knew. And I know-- I know that you're safe here. And Gifr and Gheri are with the Wellses on the farm, and the Wellses are happy and safe. That Hephaestos is creating something wonderful somewhere. These-- things that are right with the universe."

A world without Stephanie Brown, somewhere-- some pocket of the multiverse that he knows of-- seems like a empty, colder place.