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Selina couldn’t help her delighted ek-ing as she pulled herself out the window and onto the roof.
Everything had gone without a hitch, and the bag of gold and diamonds on her back had a reassuring weight. After tonight, she would never go hungry again, nor would her cats.
She belly flopped onto the roof- no style points, but it worked. Besides, there would be no-one around to see at this time of night.
She was forced to revise that option when she looked up into a pair of glowing white eyes. The silhouette they were set in looked almost human.
Her breath was stolen from her chest when wings snapped open, blocking out the moon.
“Another? Like me?”
Shadow struck from those blackened wings, wrapping around her wrists and ankles, binding her tightly. The bag was snatched from her back and alarms started to blare from below.
The creature… the-the Bat-Man chittered, then vanished into the night.
She couldn’t stay here. She could already hear distant sirens.
The wraps were skin tight, there was no way she could wriggle out of them. She tired to bite them, but all that did was hurt her teeth.
She took a breath and let her human form melt away with a sigh.
Paws slipped out of the too large bindings and she quickly hurried to the edge of the roof, leaping from that on to the next, until she found one of her hiding spots and curled up to wait for morning.
The momentary meeting haunted her dreams.