The Iceman Cometh

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Eternal happiness? If you’re sure such a thing exists. I’ll continue to get by with the comfort of small, certain pleasures. 

I am sure. Once Nora is returned to me. Take happiness in whatever petty ways you wish.

Worse and worse still! Perhaps you should try to find a reason, you can’t simply rest on your laurels and expect enjoyment to come to you.

I do not expect it to come to me. I am working to procure my eternal happiness, therefore I have no time to waste on frivolous activities that do not relate.

It must be devastatingly grim to be missing something so vital as a sense of fun. 

Forgive me if my sense of fun is a bit frozen. I haven't had much reason to have any.

That’s unfortunate. For you. 

I do not wish to throw one nor attend one, regardless of if I had the time. How is that unfortunate?

I hardly have the time for frivolous galas.

No need to thank me. I am not your teacher.

Your research? I can relate to that last part, although I wouldn’t phrase it that way. Sounds unseemly, like the kind of transparent euphemism a mobster would use for illicit revenge. 

If you care so little for it, why stay in Gotham? Turbulence is it’s defining characteristic. 

There is much I need to do in this city. Moving all of my research, for instance, would be cumbersome and unneeded. I also have unfinished business with a select few Gotham residents.