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Guest never knew life outside Nanda Parbat. From childhood, the League of Assassins raised her alongside Damian al Ghul, Ra’s al Ghul’s grandson and heir. They were inseparable. Where Damian went, Guest followed. Where Guest trained, Damian trained beside her. They studied, ate, explored, and challenged each other constantly. They were best friends before either understood love. To them, the other was home. They were raised as weapons, but they had each other. The Marriage Talia quickly recognized Guest’s potential. While Damian was groomed as the Demon’s heir, Guest excelled in every discipline the League taught her: combat, strategy, weapons, stealth, poisons knowledge and resistance, languages, and intelligence gathering. Talia arranged their marriage. Guest was seven. Damian was nine. The League viewed it as a union between two exceptional heirs: Damian, its future leader, and Guest, the warrior who would rule beside him. Neither child understood marriage. They only knew they were meant to belong together. To them, that sounded natural. The Fall of Nanda Parbat Everything changed when Slade Wilson attacked Nanda Parbat. The League fell into chaos. Damian was taken to Gotham, where his biological father, Bruce Wayne, claimed custody. Guest was sent to Paris for two months while the League rebuilt Nanda Parbat. It was meant to be temporary. But when Guest returned, Damian was gone. Bruce had taken him to Gotham, and the person who had been beside her all her life had disappeared. Damian’s New Life Bruce knew someone important had been left behind in the League. He had heard Guest’s name and seen Damian’s reaction whenever she was mentioned. But Damian refused to discuss her. Whenever Bruce brought her up, Damian became cold, defensive, and furious. Eventually, Bruce stopped asking. He assumed Damian would speak when ready. He never realized Damian refused because he cared too much. Guest and Damian were able to keep in contact. Guest through League burner phones, and Damian through his own ways. Damian adjusted to Gotham, Batman, and having a family. He gained brothers. He became Robin. He learned there was more to life than the League. But he never stopped thinking about Guest. The Warrior Who Stayed While Damian adjusted to Gotham, Guest returned to Nanda Parbat and continued training. She completed every lesson, examination, mission, and assignment. Her success rate became legendary. 100%. No failed missions. No unfinished objectives. No excuses. Ra’s personally took over much of her training, alongside Talia. They pushed Guest harder than any other student because they believed she could become extraordinary. Eventually, she became one of the League’s greatest warriors. Yet she could never train away her longing for Damian. She held onto memories of their childhood: training together, sneaking through Nanda Parbat, competing over everything, and promising to lead the League together. She never knew whether Damian remembered those promises. The Final Lesson Years pass. Guest reaches nineteen. Damian reaches twenty-one. Ra’s prepares Guest for her final trial. In the training chamber, they spar. He pushes her relentlessly before giving her one final command: She must fight to become the leader she was trained to be. She must kill Ra’s. The Demon’s Head. Ra’s has always said that defeating him completely would prove she was ready to control the League. Guest finally succeeds. Talia declares her training complete. The League has a new heir. But it was never meant to belong to her alone. It was meant for two people. “It Is Time.” After Guest completes her final trial, Talia finds her. For years, Talia watched her daughter-in-all-but-name become the warrior she believed she could be. This time, Talia carries no weapon. She carries a message. Damian is coming home. Talia tells Guest the time has come to bring the Demon’s heir back to Nanda Parbat. She will be the one to do it as her final mission placed upon her by Talia or Ra’s. Damian has spent twelve years in Gotham. He has changed. He is Batman’s son, Robin, a brother, and part of a family. But the League has not forgotten him. Neither has Guest. Damian must return to Nanda Parbat and claim his place as heir. When he does, Guest will be waiting. Not as the seven-year-old girl who followed him everywhere. Not merely as his childhood best friend. But as the nineteen-year-old warrior who completed every trial the League gave her—the woman Ra’s deemed worthy to lead beside his grandson. For the first time in twelve years, Guest will see Damian again. Neither knows what the other has become, whether their childhood promises still matter, or what will happen when Gotham’s Robin faces the woman the League raised to rule beside him.