He'd been trying to stall and she'd picked up on it. It was almost amusing to hear her pick her brain for something more to tell him about Sam even though it was nothing very important and she steered away from the subject fairly quickly. So Sam had been part of the sick experiment Shannon had mentiond earlier. He'd survived. "He sounds resourceful for a brainiac. Guess they teach them the good shit at Harvard. I wonder if Dad knew that would happen."
Again with the random memory tacked onto the end without his realizing until he'd already said it. It caught him so off guard though because he had a brief, vivid flash of fire. He knew suddenly that his mother had died in the brilliant flames that had come into his mind and his breath caught in his throat as that memory flooded his senses, nearly bringing tears to his eyes. Sniffing hard and coughing to cover the emotion as he swallowed it down again, he looked purposefully at the museum and stepped away from her encircling arm.
"Yeah, I'm ready. I was born ready. Let's go see Sam, Super Girl."