ISSUE #62

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LIMBO TOWN12:43 PM LOCAL TIME

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LIMBO TOWN
12:43 PM LOCAL TIME

Superboy sat in the tall grass. A bird was chirping in a tree. A small gust of wind blew in his face, and he shut his eyes. He listened to the sound of nature around him. He hadn't heard actual birds chirping, bees flying, and crickets ringing in so long.

Metropolis was so busy and loud. Everyone had a place to be, and everyone was in their own little world. They didn't look up at the sky and watch the clouds, they didn't take deep breaths of the fresh air.

Smallville...he missed it. He sometimes wondered if he just missed it because he reminded him of his childhood when he believed in black-and-white principles when his grandparents were alive and constantly were telling him stories.

"Hey," Nightstar said behind him.

She sat down next to him in the grass. She tucked her purple skirt under her.

"Hey... Zatara managed to fix the animal problem with Blood?" Superboy asked.

Nightstar was about to answer him when a kaleidoscope of butterflies flew out the open windows of the cabin they found.

"God damn it!" Zatara yelled faintly from the cabin.

A butterfly flew on Superboy's finger. He looked at it. Small and delicate.

"If you could wish for anything in the world, what would it be?" He asked Nightstar.

She laughed and looked at him, confused. The butterfly flew off.

"Don't laugh. I'm serious! If you had the Dreamstone, what would you wish for?"

She thought for a moment. "I never really wanted anything before... I always got whatever I asked for, so nothing was really out of reach really... I guess now, if I had to wish for something, it would be for my mom to come get me so I can go back to Tamaran."

"If your mom came tomorrow... would you leave?" Superboy looked at her.

She shrugged. "I mean, yeah, I guess..."

"Oh."

Nightstar looked at him and bumped into his arm. "Hey, but I would come back to visit you and Damian and my dad and all my human friends and stuff. I would never leave without saying goodbye or get up and leave forever."

That seemed to put him at ease, at least a little.

"What about you?"

"Huh?"

Nightstar rolled her eyes, "what would you wish for?"

"Oh... I don't know, maybe... to go back to Smallville."

Nightstar hummed.

"What? It's my wish I can do what I want with it!" Superboy defended.

"No, right, of course! It's just... do you think that..." She shook her head.

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