"It's how it's said more than that it's said - especially now. It's whispered in a greeting, after a handshake." But he broke off when Clark started speaking again, listening intently of his own accord.

When he announced that they'd found Lois's apartment, Jim's face lost any expression he'd had. "Pereyti s vami ili ostat'sya s ney?" he asked, not even aware he'd lapsed into what he'd almost come to think of as his mother tongue. Go with Clark, or stay and watch Lois? That was all he really needed to know. Either way, he would need his weapons.