Not with a crash, but with a soft, almost polite shatter . A figure floated in. He was wearing the blue suit. The red cape. The perfect jawline. But his eyes were the color of old mercury, and his smile was… wrong. Too wide. Too eager.

I looked at the empty vault. Then at my cold coffee.

"Just tell me you can stop a clone," I squeaked.

"A clone?" She laughed, a sound like dry leaves skittering on a coffin lid. "Honey, that's not a clone. That's a revenant . Someone stuffed a dead Kryptonian template with the rage of a hundred lost souls. The big guy in blue can punch it. I have to unravel it."