Eva started to walk away now.

“Eva wait! Sorry Robin, thanks again for the save!” Her classmate smiled at him and chased after the other girl.

You haven’t been here long enough, Eva. Gotham is protected by its very own heroes! Batman et Robin.” The schoolmate gestured the boy.

“al'abtali? {heroes}” She looked down. Why didn’t Darfur have heroes like them? Evangeline thought to herself.

She looked back up. “shkran lak. {thank you}” +

Evangeline’s eyes widened when suddenly a boy dressed rather strange - in her opinion - seemed to have appeared from nowhere and came to their rescue.

Her classmate responded swiftly, “Thanks to you, Robin!”

“rubin? Rouge-gorge ? {both mean robin}” Eva looked at the other student.

“Oh that’s -

She was walking home with a classmate who lived in the same building as her when a man approached and started to hassle them. “abtaead! {keep away}” Evangeline kept her eyes on their heckler and stood in his way as he tried to grab her classmate.

“la {no}! atrukuna washanana {leave us alone}!”

Six years later, when Eva was ten, they left France and moved to Gotham City. Why? Business, that’s all they’d say.

Now, she had a new language to learn in an unfamiliar city; as if learning French wasn’t difficult enough.

It happened on a day that was dull and dreary like every day in Gotham. ++

they led the soldiers to the church where the kids were hidden. During the escape, Eva’s brother was allegedly shot down, leaving her all alone.

The UN took the displaced children to an orphanage in France where - one by one - they were adopted. Evangeline’s “new” parents were French socialites. ++

shelter with others in an abandoned church.

Unfortunately, the adults were found and — killed. The teenagers were left in charge of a group of small children. Evangeline’s older brother and some others were later found by UN rescue vehicles. The teens knew the children needed to leave first so ++

A survivor. That’s what she was, but what does that mean? Evangeline came from a small village in Darfur and when she was four years old, the genocide that had begun the year of her birth had finally reached the small village she called home. Escaping seemed impossible, but her family had found ++