The laptop that Lana uses to scroll down her search results is state-of-the-
art, as is the apartment around her—all modernist minimalism and perfect
lines, but the panic that makes her fingers clumsy on the mouse is just the
same as it was within the shabby confines of Lars Town. It has been two
days since she moved to Pioneer Circus, but her mind is still trying to
piece together the events of the past few days. She has not been out of her
chrome and glass cocoon, preferring to survive on tinned soup rather than
braving the chaos that reigns outside the quiet luxury of her new
apartment. She knows that this chaos is but a reflection of the turmoil
that churns inside her mind, but she refuses to give way to the swathes of
hysteria that threaten to engulf her at the least provocation.
Clark calls on her handheld many times a day, but she has not invited him to her new abode. She cannot bear to see him, now, at this time, not when she does not know what she is dealing with. This has happened before, she feels again the strangest sense of déjà vu, but it is a macabre parody of the bygone, for the one person she could always turn to before was the one she must now avoid at all costs.
Lana feels threatened by the ghost of Karma, of fated retribution, but swallows down the rising bile and the encroaching claustrophobia, and forces herself to focus on the superficial. She has great practice in this, for in the world of Lana Lang; suppression has been developed into an art form.
Baby steps, she thinks, right click, back, enter new search term...
Finally, after the haze in her head makes it seem that she can no longer comprehend the English language, she find a link that leads her back to Smallville.
Lowell medical supplies, makers of artificial hip joints, knees and plates for the ...
She looks at the glass brick wall before her that reflects her distorted world, a pale girl with eyes dark with terror stares blankly back at her.
' Lowell Medical supplies uses a new patented polymer developed by the founder Dr. Hamish Calvert that he developed while working for Luthorcorp, in 1998. Luthorcorp holds the patent for this new wonder material that uses certain mineral deposits found in the Lowell county to give it unprecedented lightness and 'intelligence' in the manner that the polymer adjusts to the osteal structure of the patient. Laboratory trials were carried out...' And there were a multitude of details in medical jargon meant to conceal but then in letters that blinked out at her in painful intensity, she sees the name she cannot erase from her memory: Smallville Medical Centre.
The buzzing in her head grows louder as she feels her headache pulsating within her skull with every drop of blood that is pumped into her brain. Her mind casts back into the debris of her repressed hurts and pulls out one name from that Sargasso Sea of memories.
Tina Greer.
Clark calls on her handheld many times a day, but she has not invited him to her new abode. She cannot bear to see him, now, at this time, not when she does not know what she is dealing with. This has happened before, she feels again the strangest sense of déjà vu, but it is a macabre parody of the bygone, for the one person she could always turn to before was the one she must now avoid at all costs.
Lana feels threatened by the ghost of Karma, of fated retribution, but swallows down the rising bile and the encroaching claustrophobia, and forces herself to focus on the superficial. She has great practice in this, for in the world of Lana Lang; suppression has been developed into an art form.
Baby steps, she thinks, right click, back, enter new search term...
Finally, after the haze in her head makes it seem that she can no longer comprehend the English language, she find a link that leads her back to Smallville.
Lowell medical supplies, makers of artificial hip joints, knees and plates for the ...
She looks at the glass brick wall before her that reflects her distorted world, a pale girl with eyes dark with terror stares blankly back at her.
' Lowell Medical supplies uses a new patented polymer developed by the founder Dr. Hamish Calvert that he developed while working for Luthorcorp, in 1998. Luthorcorp holds the patent for this new wonder material that uses certain mineral deposits found in the Lowell county to give it unprecedented lightness and 'intelligence' in the manner that the polymer adjusts to the osteal structure of the patient. Laboratory trials were carried out...' And there were a multitude of details in medical jargon meant to conceal but then in letters that blinked out at her in painful intensity, she sees the name she cannot erase from her memory: Smallville Medical Centre.
The buzzing in her head grows louder as she feels her headache pulsating within her skull with every drop of blood that is pumped into her brain. Her mind casts back into the debris of her repressed hurts and pulls out one name from that Sargasso Sea of memories.
Tina Greer.