And maps can really point to placesWhere life is evil now:Nanking. Dachau.

Everyone,_ Caitlin said, cradling her wine glass, __s the hero of his own story. That goes double for fanatics. Some of the greatest horrors in history were perpetrated by people who insisted, all the way to damnation__ door, that they fought on the side of the angels.

It wasn__ Hell; only fools and drama queens throw that word around about a place like Gotham. It was worse, in a way, because it was manmade. There wasn__ any timeless malevolence behind it all, it was just_ what human beings can descend to when they let themselves forget they can be heroes.

All good Heroes are scared, if they know the evil they face.

The enlightenment driven away,The habit-forming pain,Mismanagement and grief:We must suffer them all again.

Evil is unspectacular and always human,And shares our bed and eats at our own table ....