"We aren't Luthor," he says, and wonders if it's his imagination, or if Kelex does actually ripple, just slightly. Irritation, revulsion? "Specifically: I'm not."

Bruce figures it's not objecting to Clark so much as the human it must only have the strangest of logs about. Merged with records of the first human who was given control of the ship by a less-discerning AI, and he can be sympathetic to the evasive action. This ship has been made to do strange and unbelievable things so far on Earth; only Kelex knows the full extent of how more strange, and how more unbelievable, they can get.

Anyway. All three of them are speaking Kryptonian, so surely that's a point in the inferior human's favor.

"Do you remember Victor Stone?"