Reading this part again and was struck by this...
He just couldn't shake the certain feeling that this would be a few stolen hours - days, at best - with Lois.
hope that Clark's gut is "off-base" the way Lois' is "right-on".
But he had.
He had changed so much - not in the past few hours, but during the seven years of captivity. Did *anything* of Clark Kent remain?
He was going to have to try to reconcile the hardened person he had become with the hostile world that didn't want him.
It's interesting that in the cell, he just went with it and was very much like the 'old Clark Kent'. But now that he's out, he's thinking of himself as a 'hardened person'.
