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prologue
Kryptonians couldn’t hear the heartbeats of other Kryptonians— with the exception of their soulmate’s; or so the story goes, according to the records that the late Jor-El had inserted into the unbeating Heart of Clark’s ship. What Jor-El couldn’t have told Clark was that the universe, thrown for a loop by the destruction of Krypton and its once populous race, made the split-second decision to assign its only survivor a soulmate on Earth instead; or that decades later, it would be forced to repeat its decision when it detected another Kryptonian heartbeat on Earth.
It’s a cosmic joke in its truest form then that all human heartbeats are deafening to Kryptonians and Half-Kryptonians alike, rendering the pursuit of their soulmate a near impossible feat; and that their two human soulmates — who can hear their heartbeats and theirs alone — just so happen to belong to a rare species of human whose compulsion to harbour secrets is without rival.
Destined never to find one another, this is the story of a lonely bird and his lonelier clone boy… who never gave a shit about destiny anyway.
