[Dick smiled reassuringly and quickly typed out a message to Howie, sitting quietly and waiting for his reply. But, quiet and Dick Grayson never really went well together unless the situation really demanded it, or if he was too upset to actually know what to say, and since neither was the case here, he said,] "Thanks for telling me all this. I appreciate it."

[Really, reading through all those old conversations between Nygma and Costigan made it strikingly clear that for all the bickering he and his inmate might have done, they were way better for each other than Nygma and Costigan had been.]