In Remembrance

[bought_the_bank]

The alleyway is home to dumpsters and metal garbage cans, trash littering its old cobblestones.  It's gotten worse over the years and it makes his heart ache to see it this way.  It's a part of Gotham with a rich history, overrun by the criminal class.  The theater that used to lay at the end is closed, abandoned and decaying.  The seats have been stripped away and what remains inside is moldy from extensive water damage.  On several occasions he's thought about buying it and tearing it down.  Or rebuilding it.  He's never been able to make a decision.  So it stands.  Barely standing.  

It's in this very spot where his nightmares were born.  His impressionable mind witnessed the worst horror and his adult mind has formed around it.  He can still hear his mother screaming and the sound of shots being fired.  Crouching in blood and pearls, weeping first with fear and then woe.  It seems he's never left this place.  Inside himself, he takes it everywhere.