Hi Vicki!
This is in response to the 2021 Kerth Challenge #7, which asked authors to use a love declaration from a movie or TV show and have Lois or Clark use it in an admission of how they feel about each other.
Great. Now I need to go and look for “I know”.
“Weak,” he croaked, his voice hollow and ancient sounding. He tried to hoist himself up into a sitting position, but his waning strength failed him. He gave her an apologetic look.
/scratches head/ Brutal Youth?
She gently helped to pull him up, leaning his frail frame against her sturdier, though aged, body.
So, Clark is aging faster. Am still thinking Brutal Youth, just further down the road.
“Honey, I heard you on the phone with the kids last night. You still think that my dying is a result of that age sucking machine we dealt with so long ago,” he replied in a loving tone.
See?
“Did you…” She paused and shook her head in disbelief. “Did you just quote The Lord of the Rings?”
So, she also recognizes it. They have watched it enough times for it to still be relevant 50 years later. And she’s complaining about it? Seems like she’s just as much a fan as he is.
“Once I thought about all the implications, it was kind of terrifying. The thought of living, possibly forever, while I watched everyone I loved grow old and die…”
But he was aging normally at the time. Why would he assume he’d live longer than any other human on the planet? Dying of old age isn’t an external influence invulnerability would protect him from.
And somewhere, in the back of her mind, Clark answered with Gandalf’s voice. “No. No it isn’t.”
well-done sadness?
Michael
