"I'm not sure if I agree about the lack of choice," he admits, tilting his head a little over the edge of the couch, "but I admit, I'm in something of a unique position."
After all, being human was more than just your species. And while humans had taken over most of the globe, they hadn't taken over all of it. There were ways to get away and people who chose to stay there, disconnected, apart. Clark respected the choice even as he envied them the fact that they always had the choice to reconnect; in the age of the internet especially, one could not deny that no matter how strange, one could find others like themselves somewhere. He didn't like the part of himself that envied them, but he knew it was there. He tried to mitigate it, reminded himself that for all the world he looked and acted and seemed like them, but he would always know he wasn't one.
He pops his feet up on the coffee table and folds his hands in his lap.
"As for the best and worst... " he let his eyes slip closed, "that's a much longer discussion. And one I'm definitely not having on an empty stomach."
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After all, being human was more than just your species. And while humans had taken over most of the globe, they hadn't taken over all of it. There were ways to get away and people who chose to stay there, disconnected, apart. Clark respected the choice even as he envied them the fact that they always had the choice to reconnect; in the age of the internet especially, one could not deny that no matter how strange, one could find others like themselves somewhere. He didn't like the part of himself that envied them, but he knew it was there. He tried to mitigate it, reminded himself that for all the world he looked and acted and seemed like them, but he would always know he wasn't one.
He pops his feet up on the coffee table and folds his hands in his lap.
"As for the best and worst... " he let his eyes slip closed, "that's a much longer discussion. And one I'm definitely not having on an empty stomach."