Whee!
I mean, er, poor Petal et al. Yeah. That was it.
Aw, forget it. Whee!
Before that, it was used by a more than a few criminals, though none of them with the flare of the original."
I believe you meant "flair" there... I can't make up my mind if this is the area beneath the museum where Lex kept all his treasures, or where Lex's kid whatever-his-name-is and Lex himself took Lois. Either way, Tempus himself would approve of the irony of LnC's kids utilizing Evil Villain Lairs (tm) for their own privacy.
...aha, I see from Wendy's comments that it's from last year's superlative story. It all makes sense now.
I think if I know too much, if you start issuing warnings, once I get back, that will make it all the harder to just... do it."
"What do you mean?" Silas was clearly intrigued. "To just do what?"
"Be Superman. Or be the Superman everyone seems convinced I am."
Wow wow wow wow wow. CC, with those few simple sentences you summed up all the delicious paradoxes of time travel so neatly. Powerful angst of the good kind. You go, girl!
And poor Silas. He gently helps Clark talk himself through an identity crisis and ends up with one of his own!
