Thanks for all the birthday wishes! One more day of camping, and then I'll be back to real life and will have time to reply to comments individually.

So glad everyone enjoyed this chapter as well as yesterday's. This visit to Metropolis is one of the first things I envisioned when I started thinking about this story, and I had so much fun weaving in all the references -- from the paava leaves to the movie marathon.


Being a reporter is as much a diagnosis as a job description. ~Anna Quindlen