Poor Clark! How hard it must be, being thrown in with strangers, changing in ways he himself doesn't understand, and not have anyone he can truly talk to about it. I just want to give him a hug.
Beautifully done.
VirginiaR. "On the long road, take small steps." -- Jor-el, "The Foundling" --- "clearly there is a lack of understanding between those two... he speaks Lunkheadanian and she Stubbornanian" -- chelo.