This was lovely. I really like the idea of having The City as a character in and of itself, sort of. Not quite in the Grant Morrison sort of way, but this was pretty cool.

Also, Helena is wrong. Rabies IS treatable, providing you catch it on time, before the classic symptoms start to show. Even then, I believe, a few people have survived it, but those were all really wild cases. It's always slightly bothered me that Bruce lives in a cave full of bats...while I love bats, spending any length of time in a closed space with thousands of them is not a good idea, because rabies can occasionally be airborne.