"I'm physically sixteen. Mentally, I'm a little older, since I got stuck at sixteen for a bit due to nearly melting into a pile of ooze from having my genes unzipped--which is no picnic, by the way, and you look more like something that'd make the people charf at a picnic." He added, "But I digress."

Kon explained. "I'm a clone of Superman--well, it's more like I had my DNA spliced, diced, and julienned a bit to be like him. The cloning process itself was fast, and all my knowledge was programmed in to match my physical age."

Kon clicked his teeth together. "What I'm trying to say here is I went from single cell to single guy in under a week. I broke out of my test tube when I was physically and mentally fifteen. Even with the added time from being stuck at age sixteen for a while, if this thing just steals straight-up time, I've only got about two years of it left."

He swallowed.

"Then I...you know."

Die. Backwards.

"So, uh, let's hope your guy knows what he's doing, right? Or that whatever this is decides to stretch that week out for a good long while."

Not that he was saying this because he was scared or anything. Nope. He totally wasn't scared.