The weight of life education was so crushing it was hard to breathe. At least Henry got to enjoy a few days of low-pressure family atmosphere.
Katharine Hepburn had even secretly sought out the Kryptonian. "Henry, do you know what's been going on with Skye and Lorna these past few days? They look like someone close to them died. It's too early for them to mourn me, isn't it?"
Faced with this elderly woman who feared no taboo, the Kryptonian nearly choked. Wiping away cold sweat from who knew where, Henry said, "Kate, teenagers in their rebellious phase have wild emotional swings. Getting sentimental and melancholy is normal, right? Maybe they just got dumped by their boyfriend."
"Even if some man cheated on both of them at once and they caught him together, they shouldn't be acting like this. I asked them, but neither of them would tell me."
"Since they won't even tell you, there's even less chance they'll tell me." Henry did not dare mention that Lorna had just killed someone, because that truly was a tangled mess.
But seeing the worried look on the old woman's face, Henry could only reassure Katharine Hepburn. "How about this, Kate? All we can do is wait until they're willing to talk about it themselves, then stand in their shoes and be qualified listeners.
"Before then, they can only work through it themselves and emerge from those emotions. I'll keep a close eye on them, at least make sure they don't take that final desperate step. Will that do?"
The old woman tightly gripped Henry's hand and carefully instructed him, "You have to watch them closely. Don't let anything happen to them.
"Otherwise, I definitely won't let you off."
"Okay. I'll keep a close watch on them." The Kryptonian patted his