Lois' necklace; the chain snapped.
***
In The Dead Of The Night
"Lois?" Kal cried, twisting this way and that, desperately looking for his wife. "Lois?"
I just realized. Kal stood stop making such a fuzz. It might easily have been the other way around. Lois there, her neck snapped, and the necklace missing.
Ruce shook his head again. "I don't know. They were all hooded and masked. I couldn't see..."
So, wearing black outfits? Showing up in the night. Did the outfits look like tuxes with hoods? Maybe the Penguin?
"They left me behind," Ruce said thoughtfully. There was a hint of an apology to his voice, as if he could have done more.
They figured it would be safer to not have Kryptobat in their cave?
The organ gave out an ache of sadness at the motion and Kal's breath caught in his throat for the briefest of moments.
Awwwww
Jor-El shook his head sadly, helplessly looking around. "I've always feared this."
“Ever since the letters started to arrive how they would kidnap you. But Mrs. Gephzalha always assured me those were just people venting steam and boys playing pranks. I *knew* her fake accent should have made me suspicious that she’s not one of the roving people.
But I trusted too much in how stable and quite the planet is.
Yes. Never trust a peace you’ve enforced by shooting everyone who’s raising his voice.
"Dad, we don't know exactly what the reason is for this."
Kal defeating Nor?
Someone had targeted the house of El. But for what reason?
Zara and Lois make good concubines?
"Then we have time," Ruce said, trying to be helpful.
Until they start sending fingers and ears.
"If it's ransom they're after, they won't dare to hurt them...whoever they are."
Yes. Why would they take the royals when they could get a spoiled playboy instead who’s probably more money than all their expense accounts combined? Also, if they had wanted them killed, they could have just shot them or used poison in the syringes. No, they probably want the girls…
Since all of the vehicles on the planet had switched to hovercraft technology over two centuries prior, there would be no tracks to follow.
Clever. Maybe they should reinstate wheels?
"We can get the word spread around," Caff said with a shrug. "See if anyone else has any information that they can come forward with. Although, you undoubtedly have better resources then we do."
I don’t know. They probably play at a lot of noble’s houses. Bards are known to do that. And there, they might find Zara and Lois clothed in veils, dancing during a banquet. And Ching and Jai, riding pigs in a mock joust. Or maybe Jai’s dancing with a bear and dressed up as a fair maiden?
He knew only the shattering of his fragile heart as it lay torn and bleeding within his chest.
Michael
/rushes off to check for ghosts in Harrenhal/
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WOW! Thanks, Ken. I really do enjoy trying to get a perfect cliffhanger anytime a story calls for one. 
