"It's cute," Clark said, and it almost might have seemed like the kind of slip you'd make after being alone for a long time, after weeks of talking to yourself with no one to complain, but there was just the tiniest impish curl to his lips...

"I think, baring something catastrophic, Superman's public return to Metropolis is going to need to wait a few days. I'm a bit too twitchy to be brandishing heat vision around civilians quite yet."