Oh, Shayne, this chapter is great fun! Fun for us to read, of course. Not fun for the characters trapped in it, with portals and rifts everywhere with nasties coming through.
Again, kudos on getting to the meat of a character in only a few lines: Kristin, the struggling actress who's having one of *those days* with breaking her heels, dropping her cell phone, having a bad hair day - and now getting chased by a dinosaur!
Staggering toward them, a bearded man dressed in multiple coats and staring fixedly said, “It’s the end of the world. It’s all coming apart,” he said. “What’s real…unreal…”
Uh-oh! Is this really happening? (Obviously). Is this why a fictional character can come to life in our own universe? What can stop it? It seems like this is a job for Superman! (Who, fortunately, is here! What luck!)
You saw a dinosaur?”
“There were two smaller ones in the subway tunnel.”
“Crap,” one of the men said. “Cleanup is going to be…”
Good point - I was LOL. In the parade of life, you know, someone has to sweep up behind the elephants. There's always cleanup.
"We have a detour to make,” he said. A moment later they stopped beside one of the burning cars and the men jumped out. They checked the location and quickly circled the area with red spray paint.
So, is the red paint floating in midair? Are there circles of paint in the air with no visible means of support?
“You don’t hear people screaming in their homes?” Lois asked. She winced; she wasn’t sure she wanted to know.
“Not much more than normal,” Clark’s voice said impatiently.
That's kind of scary. All kidding aside, how much screaming in homes is there anyway? And why? It's rather disturbing to realize that there's a baseline level of screaming.
“Say hi to Cyrus for me,” the man said from above him.
A moment later he was gone.
Glad to see (or hear of) Cyrus again.
Shayne, another exciting and fun chapter. It seems, though, that Clark has been running around so much putting out fires that he hasn't really had any time to think or talk. What about getting back to his Metropolis? And all the people in the plane? Now that the LHC is damaged, he's got to take advantage of these rifts, right? But what will that mean for our world? We need him here to handle the rifts.
And are the rifts happening in the parallel (Clark's) world? And, when the bad guys fired up the LHC, there were *three* universes on-line - what about the third universe? What about parallel Clarks?
And are any other people coming through the microportals into our world? As you say, they probably wouldn't even know that it happened! (Could this be the advent of the evil Lex Luthor?)
And now, in totally unrelated news: Speaking of dinosaurs, I see that Hollywood is going to make a movie version of the old campy TV show, "Land of the Lost". Better watch out for Sleestak!
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I love it, especially the `everything was going to be all right´! Superman is here, nothing can happen to us, great! 
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