Their air hole -- their lifeline -- was plugged as though it had never been. She silently gathered both sobbing children into her arms, and sat quietly. Hopelessly.
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"Thirty-two point six miles, to be exact. But, CK, they're not *within* the circle. They're *on* it."

"You mean they're somewhere along this red line?"

"Yep, have to be!" Jimmy affirmed. He hit a key. "The map's printing out now. I sure hope you can track 'em down."

"What's wrong?"

Superman slowly turned to Walter, a look as of intense pain on his face. "It's gone. It just...it just faded out."

"What did?" Walter' confusion was evident.

"There's this...this *connection* between Lois and me. We've always had it; and I can feel it, no matter where she is. It's gone."

What is on the back of Lois seat?

She knelt on the jacket, the rocks painfully gouging her knees, and reached toward Lois's wrist. She felt a trembling hand on her arm. She turned toward Emma, to see her lip quivering in her white face. "It's stopped. Karen, it's stopped."

"*What*?" Karen grabbed wildly for Lois's wrist, and felt frantically for a pulse. She couldn't find it; Emma was right, the heart had stopped. Immediately she was full on her knees, heedless of the pain. She leaned forward, and braced herself against the partially-exposed steering wheel.