Title: Ergative-Absolutive Pairing: Kal/Kon "No way," Kon says, and Clark gives him this -- Not a Superman look. Not a Clark-Kent-married-reporter look. "You have come of age," Clark says. In Kryptonian. Cadmus had some wacky files. "But --" Kon says -- not in English -- and Clark smiles at him. "You have a great deal to learn, Kon-El," and the vowels slant funny. So does Kon's brain when Clark strips him one-handed. "I don't get it," Kon says, in Kryptonian, and why didn't they program him with Spanish, too? Better for his grades. "Tradition is all we have." Clark's mouth is -- "Great Rao," Kon says, and hates himself.
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