Oh my. Well, this is certainly more like what we expect from a Tank story. There was a Wham. Despite having read the title, the ending caught me clueless, although I had known that Jimmy wasn't going to survive this - that was a given.
But something that I don't remember reading: Lois has been missing for almost a month, trapped in a tiny cabin in the frozen wilderness. Somehow, didn't something happen that would cause her to have to cut some of her hair off?
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