Those arms tighten just a little around her, and he leans his head on top of hers. Still thinking a lot about what he's just learned.

"I screwed up yesterday," he confesses. Knowing now that what he did, or failed to do, might be the cause of all this. That his failure might mean someone's death, not knowing that it's his own.


((Still here for a teensy bit, anyway. Hooray for synchronized power unleashings! I think the only thing Clark will have left to get is superbreath, and I'm keeping that canon so it'll take a while to get there.))