He huffs a disbelieving laugh. "Not really. You read the right books, and anyone can- Just a matter of taking the time to do it. Never mind if I-"

Never mind if he was really as smart as all that he wouldn't be here in the first place. He'd have seen something was wrong before it was all blown to pieces, or he'd have figured out a cure by now.

Shaking his head and flopping against his pillow, Bruce stops himself from heading down that road again. It's one his feet know too well after all these years, and he doesn't need to revisit the scenery just yet. "What the team gets from me, that's. My being a kind of timeshare doesn't. It doesn't work that way."