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Superman here.

[The voice Kal uses is definitely Superman's. Now that he's got (most of, he notices these things) powers back he doesn't really feel like hiding.]

And I'd like to say this kind of situation is why I suggested training for those metahumans who wanted it. Not to train an army, just to help out. It'd both avoid situations like the one in the clinic and to ensure everyone who didn't have any metahuman ability would be less ready to jump on a kid who was pulling a prank.

Just because some of us have abilities that could be dangerous doesn't mean we are going to use them. Please let's not turn this into a witch-hunt, I've seen enough of those and they never end well for either party involved.

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[He didn't choose the name, promise.]

There's quite a few... I don't know the exact number though, sorry. [He could know it but that'd just be creepy.] So you come from a normal world?

And the boring, normal humans like me supposed to trust that they're all of the hero variety and not villains? [ not TOO heavy with the sarcasm, but. yeah. trust is a pretty foreign concept to her, so this all seems weird ]

I wouldn't say normal, but we don't have super powers, or rich men with cool gadgets, or anything like that. [ just lots of movies about them, which Wichita misses like crazy. movies in general, not just superhero flicks ] But I mean, yeah it was normal for a long time.

Of course not, you have brains that you can use to decide if what a person is doing is right or wrong by your standards. But you should give us the same benefit of the doubt you give to everyone else: again, just because someone has powers doesn't mean they are going to use them, or use them badly.

'For a long time'?

I guess. [ yeah, she's watched too many movies. PARANOIA. plus, she knows if she had powers, she'd.. abuse them. probably. well! depends on what they were. ]

Before the virus kinda- [ ..how to say this gently ] -wiped everybody out. [ nailed it ] My world's not doing so hot anymore.

Oh. [He's about to ask 'Like a Zombie apocalypse?' but he bites his tongue in time. He's curious, and his reporter instincts are kicking in but that would be thoughtless. Reckless.

So instead he says:] I'm sorry.

Eh.

[ no really, eh. she didn't like people before the virus, and she didn't like them after. the only thing that ever mattered to her was keeping her sister safe, that didn't change once everybody started getting sick and chewing on each other ]

Probably would've helped if we had the whole superhero advantage, but. Maybe next time.

-- You can ask me about it, if you want to.

[ because she can translate an oh like that by now, yep ]

[A little hum, the little sheepish smile tugging on Kal's lip a little obvious. Lois had always been the better one at hiding what she was really asking about, Clark's weapon was his openness and other people not expecting him to be able to use the words as a sword.

But that's Clark Kent's jobs, not Kal's.] I wouldn't want to make you relieve it.

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