Aftermath

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The flight back to Rhode Island is long and silent - Dinah, for one dwelling on all those men who just dropped dead the second J'Onn touched them with his mind. they won, but it doesn't feel like a victory, and then - then there's J'Onn.


Back in the cave, it still doesn't feel like anyone's going to say anything until Aquaman speaks up.

"So what now?"

Dinah sighs. "Now, I think we ask some hard questions. J'Onn - I think I speak for everyone when I say that, though we appreciate the fact that you're on our side..." and there's a whole lot of apology that has to come oout there, on everyone's side. "...mostly, we still feel betrayed."

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"You spied on our civilian lives," Flash adds. "You keep detailed files on us. For all we know, you used your telepathy to pry inside our--."

"No," J'Onn objects, his voice almost pleading. "I never--."

"For all we know you did."

"Why, J'Onn?" Aquaman asks.

J'Onn's shoulders sink. Coming from the other member of their team who often had trouble understanding human ways, Aquaman's question seems to have pushed J'Onn to a decision. He looks down, and when he speaks his deep voice is quiet almost to a whisper.

"For years I have been stranded on a world not my own. One that has a history of being...unreceptive to those who are different. One in which my senses are dulled by the simple light of a match...."

"Alone, in hiding, my survival depending on my powers of observation... of gathering information on the motivations of the strangers around me."