Hartley simple spared him a quick smile as he backed out of the parking space and finally exited onto the street. He knew this part of the city like the back of his hand because this was where the gays in Central City tended to congregate. Which meant he knew which alleyway to cut down to avoid most of the detour traffic.

"Not really, I know a couple of people like that. One guy I know, James, he was actually an acrobat when he was younger. His family is apparently some famous tightrope and trapeze act called the Flying Jesses but James is actually afraid of heights. Sufficing to say, that went over well with his family."

Piper murmured a little sadly. James had confided that to him one night when he'd been especially drunk. His father had been a harsh man supposedly and despite James's fear of heights, he'd forced the young man up on the high wire anyway. It had been what drove the Trickster to invent his first pair of flying shoes actually.