Enjoyable Christmas story, even if it has been nearly 90 degrees here this week.
The melancholy mood is appropriate to Lois, who never cared for the holiday anyway. It would be doubly hard in this situation. I always imagined Lois would also hold a small piece of resentment and anger too, that Clark would leave her to go fight for people he's never known. Sure, he expressed his reasons, and she tearfully supported him, but it's hard to be totally magnanimous when you're in pain. And then she'd castigate herself for harboring those negative emotions. Good thing he came back relatively quickly! It certainly made for the perfect Christmas present...WAFFy sigh.
