Ollie had been here a month? "Are you kidding me? That's about how long I've been here!" He'd been under her nose the whole time? Her investigative skills were crap these days. "I've been staying at the b&b and working as a hostess." She couldn't believe that one of her best friends had been around without her noticing. Admittedly she had been preoccupied with research, but that was still completely unprecedented. Maybe she was being affected by the blase state of mind everyone else was. Maybe something really was in the water.
"So then what have you been doing? If you've been here that long, I'm surprised you just got around to visiting Metropolis." She looked up at the sky and sighed. She wished she could actually tell the difference like that Doctor guy apparently could. It would have been a handy skill now. "I was at the hospital waiting for Clark to get patched up after I tried to play hero for a story." She'd been trying not to think about Clark lately if only so that she wouldn't keep worrying about the what ifs of his status. "One minute I was there, the next I was in a parking lot and two years later in Delaware." The reminder of losing time was painful one. What had she missed back home? Was something done to her? All the possibilities were almost maddening. Maybe that was why she was filling her time with investigating. It was the only familiar thing she had in her grasp.