A cautious meeting

[reality_warper]

From Jeannie's perspective, it's been less than two weeks since she and Jack had met the Clark Luthor version of Ultraman in the Nexus. Give or take an unspecified amount of time, given all the weirdness of their current living situation. She'd honestly expected to get to this sooner, but Pamela's kids had been more of a handful than she could have predicted. Things had finally settled somewhat and she has a place all prepared... so its a matter now of sending a text message off via PINpoint and arranging to meet Mr. Luthor in the Nexus to do something about those scars.

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[reality_warper]

"MMhmm. It's like that one Narnia book, the one with the boat. There's this one island that's supposed to be where all your dreams become real, and everyone's all 'Oh, I want to stop there, please'. And then someone says, no, you weren't listening... not your wishes, not daydreams... dreams. And everyone got out of there really really fast. The Nexus can be like both, and everything in between."

"Like you said, Mr. Luthor... it depends on which version you run into. And... I hope you keep being a version of you that none of us have to worry about getting blasted with heat vision by... And if I do my job right, you'll never have to worry about the Ultraman we're more familiar with, either."

[clark_luthor]

Clark looks at her blankly, not having read the Chronicles of Narnia at any point. The context she gives is enough to get the point, though.

"As long as you don't give me a reason to, I don't see why that shouldn't be the case," he says, raising an eyebrow. "That puts you far ahead of certain others I've met who decided to threaten Zara simply because they don't like the idea of me existing."

[reality_warper]

"I think putting home back together from pieces is gonna keep most of us too busy to meddle in anybody else's universes. Well... except maybe my daughter. It's a chronic thing for her, but I'm sure she'll stay out of yours." They'd already had a talk about that.

"And targeting the adorable bittydragon is just not playing fair."

[clark_luthor]

"I imagine that task will be a lifelong one."

[reality_warper]

"Life always is, Mr. Luthor."

[clark_luthor]

"Indeed." He's being polite at the moment, though he does wonder at the fact that she didn't hustle him out of here the moment their business was done, given her feelings about him from the start.

[reality_warper]

She's actually wondering why he hasn't left, since the door to the Nexus was left open. "Is there something else you wanted?"

[clark_luthor]

He smirks slightly. "There's always something else that I want. But nothing that I need from you at the moment."

[reality_warper]

"Well, in that case, Mr. Luthor... I'd better make sure my best friend isn't trying to feed my husband to her plants."

[clark_luthor]

"A good idea." He stands, and straightens his sleeves. "This has been an... enlightening experience."

[reality_warper]

Jeannie stands up as well, the chairs vanishing a second later. "From what I've seen of the Nexus, it's good at leading up to those... if not directly causing them."

"I'll see you around, Mr. Luthor."