Chapter 9 lives here.
And here's the TOC.

Cliffhanger!

And from my little research section: Regarding super-vision, we all know that Superman can see very well in the dark, but there were one or two points in the show where his night vision seemed to be more impaired than his usual vision (and that translated to very impaired for Superman, who I had always assumed could see perfectly well in the dark). But this one can't see everything for some reason? So I took the show's cue and gave Clark vision that was much better in the dark than anyone else around him, but was not perfect. (And, of course, there's all that lead in the walls and rocks around them, which you can assume is also in any dust in the air.)

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