What a powerful emotional chapter! Beautifully written.

She finds herself face to face with a stranger.
Neither Clark, nor Superman, he is some strange hybrid, a facet of him she has never seen before
How true and devastatingly sad for them both.
She came to see that he was all right, and now she has her answer.
He isn’t.
And so, Lois decides, she has a new wish (a new desire; a new goal), and she will not leave until it is accomplished.
She is going to take this stranger, and she is going to make him better.
Great to have this chapter end with hope.