Riddle 016: Child's Play

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[If you happen to be out and about today, Mayfield, you'll find a familiar-looking ten-year-old boy with glasses, green suspenders, and an incredibly dorky haircut, wandering around while tugging a backpack that's way too big for him and mumbling to himself.]

...stupid dad, never picks me up on time...

...which way was home again?

[He looks ridiculously lost.]

Comments

[sensiblechild.livejournal.com]

. . . That usually depends on where home is.

[10 year old Susan folds her arms in front of the Riddler and condescends. All is normal.]

[puzzlerprince.livejournal.com]

It's... back in the city. How would I get to the expressway from here?

[sensiblechild.livejournal.com]

You can't.

What's an expressway?

[puzzlerprince.livejournal.com]

What's a---It's like a highway. It's how I usually get home from school.

[sensiblechild.livejournal.com]

But you never want to take the highway. That's where the bandits always hide.

[puzzlerprince.livejournal.com]

...I've never heard of a bandit doing anything like that. Though I guess all the bad guys in Gotham really don't need a reason to do something like that.

[sensiblechild.livejournal.com]

The backroads are always much safer. But it might be different in Gotham. I've never heard of it.

[puzzlerprince.livejournal.com]

It's where I live. Really big city. Full of lots of bad people.

[sensiblechild.livejournal.com]

I've never lived in a city before, but it sounds like Ankh-Morpork. Father always says I mustn't go.