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BWI Portalocity Terminal [Saturday Morning]

Rather than fly from Philadelphia to Baltimore, Eric's parents had given him a lift. They had offered to drive him directly to the school, but he told them he would rather meet the group at the airport and take the shuttle. That way he'd get an early glimpse at all the hot girls he was sure would be going to his new school.

So now he was relaxing in the lounge, drinking a soda and waiting. It wasn't going to college, but it would do.

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"I think this is Maryland," Didi told him. "I like it. Kansas has more corn."

Clark took note of her seemingly damp state. "Yeah...it does. Did your plane stopover in a lake?"

"I didn't come in a plane," she informed him ruefully. "I fell into a fountain in New York 15 years ago and came out here. My brother says it was a portal."

She twirled a little. "I don't think I mind being damp."

"Fifteen years ago?" Clark's brain was used to processing weird, but that was a little beyond him.

"Maybe sixteen?" Didi said. "I lose track. I mean, I didn't live through it, it was just a whoosh thing."

Clark was worried. "A whoosh thing? You haven't come in contact with some green meteor rock, have you?"

"You mean kryptonite?" Didi asked, frowning. It wasn't exactly common, but she'd seen it a couple times at the end. "Not -- lately. I think this was more a magic whoosh portal thing than a rock thing."

His eyes couldn't have bugged out of their sockets any harder than they were. "What do you know about kryptonite?"

"It's a rock and it makes people sick in weird ways?" Didi said. "Am I not supposed to?"

"I thought I knew everyone who was aware of that," Clark replied, feeling both wary and curious and not knowing how to get over that to learn more. "Who are you?"

Crap.

"I'm Death," she said plainly. "I know a lot of things. I wasn't trying to step on your secrets. You mentioned it first, remember?"

"Death?" He really needed to stop repeating things other people said. "Guess there aren't really secrets people can have from you."

Didi shrugged. "I don't read minds, but if something kills people, I know about it, yeah. It's part of the job."

She offered a hand. "Call me Didi?"

"Didi," he repeated, shaking her hand. "I'm Clark Kent, but I'm betting you knew that if you knew what makes me sick." He still wasn't sure he could die.

Didi shook her head. "I'm just a little piece of Death. I'd know your name if we were at the beginning or the end, and I might know little weird things like if you like honey in your coffee. But I'm not -- I can't do everything right now."

She was mortal. It was limiting. And iof the name Clark Kent was familiar, she didn't show it.

"It's good to meet you, anyhow."

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