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I might change it to "elephant's trunk," though, in the archive version.
I personally like the "tusk" for Lex--even is a snake/trunk metaphore is also fitting. The tusk is beautiful ivory but also hard and so sharp that you can be skewered on it--like "loves arrow"(positive aspect) or a spear--depending on how you look at it. It would seem in this story that Lois got "both" from Lex.

I can't say enough how much I love this story. You are truely a gifted writer.

Vonceil

Johnny was a chemist,
Now Johnny is no more,
For what he thought was H two O
Was really H two S O four.
--Lab safety limrick--