It was a testament to Bruce's self-control that his sole reaction was a frown.
"Do you know something about the case?" Bruce said, cautiously, which was at least better than a flat denial and an insistence that Barbara leave. He could be rational; he was trying to be more careful about taking the dreams at face value, but Barbara was a competent and clever woman in the waking world as well as in this fictional Gotham. If she knew something, he'd at least hear it.