“Hello?”

“Hi. Is ... Virgil there?”

“Yeah. Hold on.” *pause* “Hello?”

“Virgil, it’s Lantern.”

“For real?” *pause* “How’d you get my number?”

“Batman.”

“Oh. Right.”

“Can you talk?”

*muffled* “I’ll be upstairs!” *louder* “Go ahead.”

“Batman said ... He told me you went to the future. There was a time machine.”

“Yeah. Last year.”

“How far did you go?”

“Um. Forty years? Something like that.” *pause* “Batman said not to tell him anything. He didn’t want to know.”

“I’m not Batman.”

“There was a new Batman, a young guy.”

“Black suit? Red bat on the chest?”

“Yeah.”

*long pause*

“Tell me everything.”