"He doesn't want him to die." If nothing else in their conversation has done it, Batgirl has his full attention now. It took Jason years to understand it, and more than a few fraught arguments with Tim, but he gets it now.

He's more caution than person, more useful as a ghost than he ever was a son. "Why do you think he kept that case, why he wanted to stare at the uniform I died in day after day. To remind him why he can't let Damian go out there before he's ready. So he doesn't end up like you and me."