[ Like this, his mouth pulls a little. He'd put more effort into smoothening it away, were he facing Clark as he knows him. Wry, ]
You weren't holding out for hair gel powers?
[ Of course he wasn't. The terror of wondering if something would happen — if everything he felt in tumultous teenage years was a truly inhuman urge nobody would ever understand or explain. If the Kents had been any less decent than they were — ]
[ He feels tense, and buries it before it surfaces. ]
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You weren't holding out for hair gel powers?
[ Of course he wasn't. The terror of wondering if something would happen — if everything he felt in tumultous teenage years was a truly inhuman urge nobody would ever understand or explain. If the Kents had been any less decent than they were — ]
[ He feels tense, and buries it before it surfaces. ]