"My nice friends back there told me I should?" Hayley said, hoping her blatantly obvious embellishment of the situation would somehow explain it all. Somehow.

"I'll be back soon, though, right?" Her tone was more of a question and not actually a statement. "This isn't a big deal. They just want to make sure I'm doing okay. They're from the Gotham police, they're all really nice."

She fidgeted a bit, desperate to seem like everything was okay.