In a very deliberate gesture he pulled the cowl back and away from his face. She had seen him without it before but never seen that moment before-- without the cowl that transformed him into Batman but before he could compose the less tangible one that marked his other performance as cool, collected and charismatic Bruce Wayne. For that moment he was merely Bruce, the wounded little boy who wasn't normally allowed to appear this frankly to other people.

"I'm open," he all but says, "Take of me what you will."