"They were your friends, too." Raven said quietly, offering a squeeze of her hand. "I think they'd like this." Privately she wondered if her own friends had done something similar. Accepted she was gone--or were they still trying to find her? She knew Robin likely wouldn't give up until he collapsed...

But it was better this way--Earth was safe from Trigon. Neither he nor his messenger-boy Slade could get to her here. And she'd made new friends, new family...that helped ease the sting.