A Leap of Faith (Part 2)

Chapter 356 - Lazarus Pit Locations

"You know who Talia is then?" Kara asks Oliver.

"The Talia from this world, yes." Oliver replies, "Although, to say that I truly know her, is bit of an understatement. I doubt there are many people on this planet who know Talia Al-Ghul utterly and completely."

"Then, what do you know of her, Oliver?" Barry asks, "As from what Kara has told me, this is important on her world, so maybe the Talia on our world, and the Talia on Kara's word have similarities, that could be useful for Kara to know."

"Yes, okay." Oliver nods, "Well, I know Talia because during the 5 years I was presumed dead, I ended up in Russia, where I dealt with the Russian mob. During my time there, I was on a mission to prove myself to the bratva, but I got hurt. Talia saved me, as it turns out she was after the same target. When I woke, she told me that she had been watching me, and that I shouldn't allow myself to just become a person the bratva disposes of. I then told her I was only trying to join the bratva to take down one of the leaders of it, who was partly responsible for an incident that happened on Lian Yu. It turns out that Talia was after the same Bratva leader, but she told me that neither of us would be able to do it alone, so she offered to train me. She is the person who trained me to use a bow and arrow, and helped me to further improve my fighting skills. I learnt a lot from her in the months we trained together, to prepare for our mission. But, as for other information that could be useful to you, Kara. On this world, Talia Al-ghul is the oldest daughter of Ra's Al-Ghul, who was the head of the league of assassins. The league were a shadowy group of assassin's, with a cult like attitude, who carried out assassinations all over the world. They had not political allegiance or any interest in influencing world events, they just killed for the highest bidder. However, the organisation did have a tendency to deal with personal matters too. If someone had wronged them, they would seek to murder them themselves. Anyway, on this world Talia was part of the league of assassin's for years, which is where she got her training from, but she left after realising her father would never give up his title as the head of the league to a woman, even if it were her, his daughter."

"Talk about sexism." Barry scoffs.

"Anyway, after Talia realised that her father was never going to hand off the mantle as head of the league of assassins to her, Talia left the league, and left her father behind, along with her younger sister." Oliver explains.

"Younger sister?" Kara asks, "Her sisters name isn't..... Nyssa, is it?"

"Yes, it is." Oliver nods, without a surprised expression on his face that Kara has been able to guess the sister's name, unlike Barry, "I presume, from you saying that, Nyssa is someone that exists on your world too?"

"Yes." Kara nods, "We are coming here to ask information from you because we don't know much about Leviathan, or Talia and Nyssa, but there are certain things we have been able to find out, over the months of dealing with Leviathan and everything. One of them is that Talia is the head of Leviathan, and seemingly Nyssa works with Talia, but doesn't approve of everything that Talia does as leader of Leviathan and everything. There have been multiple occasions where Nyssa has actually helped us, even if that ended up meaning damaging her sister's plans."

"That sounds very similar to the Talia and Nyssa I know from this Earth." Oliver explains, "As on this Earth, after Talia left the league, Nyssa stayed, and she spent years training with her father and everything, acting as his number two. Meanwhile Talia was out in the world doing her own thing, away from the league, wanting absolutely nothing to do with her father."

"I see." Kara nods, "What happened to their father on this world? As from how I understand things on my world, their father seems to have been dead for a long time."