( yo, mondo doesn’t give him any sign of disliking it at all, so of course jon’s going to keep holding onto him. if anything, the way his heart jumps gives jon the feeling that he’s pretty okay with being held onto. )

We could make a birdhouse. Those’re pretty easy. We made some simple ones back in school—but I bet we can make an even cooler one.

( there are a lot of rows of books. but one of the benefits of being half kryptonian? super vision. jon’s eyes see things a lot better than any humans could; he perceives things with a level of clarity that’s, frankly, not quite explainable. he adjusts the glasses on his face, pushes the frames up with a finger and looks over the rows of books under them. it’s only another moment before he’s settling them on his nose once more and pointing his index out to a row off in the distance. )

There’s some woodworking stuff over there, aand--( in the opposite direction-- ) dirt bike stuff over that way.