Another MLT story, yay!
I was thrilled when I saw you had another story in the works. And the subject is one of my pet peeves (the plot holes in TEHI make me want to tear my hair out) so I'm glad you decided to tackle it. Infra-red vs UV light, bah!
I loved this bit:
It helped that Clark had an eidetic memory. He could keep in his mind exactly how many steps to take across the barn, to the house, to the cabin. He could remember every time something was moved and exactly where it had been left. That allowed him to find his sunglasses at a moment’s notice or avoid a moved chair or not trip over his work boots. Such a trait might have driven Lois nuts in normal times, but now... Seeing Clark master the skill and self-esteem that came with using it had brought tears of pride to her own eyes on more than one occasion.
And this (Clark "Daredevil" Kent?
):
“Anyway, I think you do the calculations in your head. I think that’s how you got to Betsy so quickly when I was in trouble. I think that’s how you manage to hit a target with your heat vision and freezing breath. You can hear the way the wind echoes back when it bounces off objects - letting you know how far it is to the object - and if you can do that with smaller objects, you can certainly hear echoes letting you know how far away the ground is. Isn’t there an animal that’s blind - that navigates using its hearing?”
I'd always figured that Clark must be super-smart because his brain would need to be able to process at super-speed for him to be able to do what he does, eg catch bullets or navigate around the earth in seconds (which makes it harder to understand his more lunkheaded moments!) I think this is the first time I've seen his mental abilities pointed out as one of his superpowers.
These parts made me cringe:
He still insisted on spending part of everyday lying in the sun. She supposed she understood. He wanted his sight back. But staring blindly at the sun hardly seemed to be helping. Still, she could hardly object. After all, surely he understood how his body worked better than she did.
…he wanted to give his eyes as much exposure to the sun as possible.
The faithful sunblock user in me thinks there has to be something fundamentally wrong with this idea
Come on, Clark, you science geek! Figure it out!
-Jude