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[andaway]

[The ID reads Clark Kent, as always. Not the right time to try fooling the network yet.]

Sadly, Captain Holiday was put under intensive care not long before I ended up here so I never got to talk to him. But I was hoping some of you might have gotten a chance to contact him before that. If you have, I'd appreciate if you could tell me about your conversations with him.

You don't have to tell me what the conversation was about, I understand a lot of them were confidential. [That word, he hates it. Lois might see it as a sign that she's pulling the right strings but Clark only sees it as a wall he cannot punch or fly over.]

It's really him I'm interested on. If you noticed anything weird in how he behaved, perhaps, or if he was acting completely normal.

[He pauses for a second. And then:]

I'd also be interested in talking with people who've been able to take a look at the Porter, or been in contact with it. I understand it's a privilege to be allowed near it?

Thank you.

Comments

[rathercommon]

[ Kitty grins. She approves of a man who can take that sort of joke. ]

Is she here?

[andaway]

No, she isn't. I'd say sadly, but I'm actually glad she isn't here. She'd be bored out of her mind with just a couple days.

Or she'd decide to take matters into her own hands and make a mess out of the politics here.

[rathercommon]

Glad, you say. But aren't you lonely without her?

[andaway]

Of course I am. She's my best friend as much as she's my wife. But it'd be pretty selfish of me to want her to be here.

[rathercommon]

Would it? I obviously don't know you or anything of the sort, so I might well be overstepping myself in saying this, but I imagine she'd be cross if she knew you were lonely. She'd probably WANT to be here for that alone.

[andaway]

Both of us are journalist, so we're pretty used to spending time away from each other because one of us is seeking a story.

[Among other reasons he can't share.]

I was actually spending some time away when I got ported here, helping my mother at the farm. If anything she'd be mad if I spent time missing her instead of doing my best to gather as much information as possible. This isn't permanent, she'd say, so I don't get to use her absence as an excuse.

[rathercommon]

[ Kitty smiles to herself. ]

She sounds really lovely.

[andaway]

I'm probably the only man in history to ever call her lovely and live to tell the tale but yes, she is.

But I'm sharing quite a lot considering one of us is anon. [He's willing to take a leap of faith, but there's lines to be drawn.]

[rathercommon]

[ Oh. Yeah. Well. ]

Yeah...But it's very nice things you're sharing. It's really sweet. And not at all embarrassing.

[andaway]

It's also a way to get under my skin. [Which honestly he shares with everyone who can stand to listen to him gush about Lois for more than a couple seconds, but still.]

But back to the topic at hand. Did you ever happen to listen to anything about Captain Holiday?

[rathercommon]

OK, that's fair.

And do you mean did I hear anything about him when I was eavesdropping, or have I been listening about him on the network?

[andaway]

Both, I suppose. But they are being pretty closed off about his situation and why the sudden need for treatment so I was hoping maybe you'd heard something.

[rathercommon]

Sorry. They were scientists, not politicians. What they knew about was the Porter, not any of the people around it.

[andaway]

Will you contact me if that ever changes? Or if there's any more information on the porter and its problems?

[rathercommon]

That depends. Will you promise to get the information into the hands of people who can do something about it?

[andaway]

Always. That's my job.

It's probably not going to be as flashy as Freddie's way of sharing the news though.

[rathercommon]

That's OK. Just as long as people know about it.