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Along the way, he’d decided he disliked the bare, Spartan feel of the apartment and returned to Kansas to retrieve his belongings.

There is a lot said with this sentence.

Clark is leading a very lonely existence and wants to fill the absence of human company with an apartment that has warmth and reminders of his travels. The guy needs to get back to Metropolis. Go find Lois!

Morgana

A writer's job is to think of new plots and create characters who stay with you long after the final page has been read. If that mission is accomplished than we have done what we set out to do, which is to entertain and hopefully educate.