“He doesn’t want anyone, especially Lois, knowing that the rock made him sick, got it?”
Yeah, that makes sense, thought Thomas. Lois seemed to have a bee in her bonnet about everything Jerome said or did. He didn’t need to add extra logs to that man’s marriage funeral pyre.

Smallville file!
With an extra push, Lois was able to get her head and shoulders into the tent, but then a soldier entered, and she froze.
Oh boy. She *is* rather exposed.
The soldiers were loading a big, and apparently heavy, box into the back of the truck directly in front of her.
His cradle!
She knew she should have eaten a better lunch than cookies.

But they contained *chocolate*!
She had forgotten to warn Jimmy to stay away from the town sheriff. Crapola. Okay, maybe Sheriff Harris wasn’t as bad as everyone said he was.
Maybe pigs would start flying next.
Lois didn’t care if there were soldiers in the truck.
Oh dear. /flashes to Raiders of the Ark/
She didn’t care what was in the truck actually.
Superman’s cradle?
She could do that, couldn’t she? She was Lois Lane after all.
Not lacking self confidence, is she?

Michael