Jin had her back to the wall, squirming slightly as Batman reprimanded her. Honestly, it never got any easier to hear, his disapproval. She wanted to impress him still, to prove that she'd been worth the time and effort to train. But she'd messed up pretty good. It just made her nervous, when Batman got mad. It wasn't a yelling, hot anger. That, she could handle. She could yell with the best of them, and would have preferred it if she was just screamed at. But no- Batman had this way of looking at you, and digging into your core, and quietly telling you just how and why you'd screwed up. It was a calm, rational anger, and she had nothing to refute it with. Yelling at him would make her seem like a child. So she just stood there and tried not to shake, and desperately refuted the tiny part of her mind that told her that Batman could drop her off at some street corner at the other end of the world and wash his hands of her if she continued to fail.

Of course he wouldn't. But he [i]could[/i], and that was more than enough to scare her. She heard Luke saying he'd order pizza, and tried to fight down a little smile. He bounced back pretty quick- that was admirable. The quicker you could brush off defeat, the quicker you could work toward winning the next time. There was no use wallowing in it- stay too long at your pity party and the world would continue without you.

Patriot tried to throw himself under the bus, and she resisted the urge to roll her eyes. Her gaze did narrow at Patriot, and she couldn't stop herself from speaking. "Full responsibility? Please. We all acted on our own terms, and that was the entire problem. You did what you knew, I did what I knew, and et cetera. We all screwed up. Don't think you're so important that we did it because of you." What was he trying to pull? Did he really think anyone believed his little act? It was disgusting, how he seemed to be treating their elders like they were all born yesterday. He was no better than a charming con with the best gig in the world- desperate for anything he could snatch, including power. She'd definitely have to keep an eye on him.