Clark wanted to ask her how she had gotten so skilled, but he was wary of the easy rapport that had gathered around them while their concentration had been centred on a twine-bound buffalo bladder.
he is still holding out on fully opening up. OK, if he was not, it would be hard to believe, but still.
He nodded, startled by how natural it would have felt to smile at their shared memory.
Yes, he is making progess, even if he is still resisting it.
"I'm going down to the river to bathe," she announced.
"OK," Clark said.
She didn't move away. "Coming?"
This seems a bit forward, asking him to come with her when she goes and bathes.
"Now is the best time," Lois said. "There won't be any problems with animals, and the temperature will drop really quickly once the sun goes behind the trees."
I guess it makes sense, but it still seems really forward. I guess you can bathe modestly, sortof, maybe, probably. Still, I can see why Clark is resisting. Well, OK, he is at the point of resisting everything.
"I'm a medicine woman. I've seen a naked man before."
This is really not going to make him want to go. So much for "modesty". I guess in some cultures it is actually normal for people to bathe in fairly public places with little or no clothing, but since Clark is not from such a culture, I can see why he is resitant. OK, his main reason to resist is still the Lana-induced pain, but it makes sense he would resist.
"If you're serious about leaving, you need to learn as much as you can. Like when it's safe to enter the river. What to look for to ensure water is OK to drink." As she was talking, Lois moved into the hut, coming out with two towels. She offered him one and grinned. "Perhaps I should have mentioned already - there's a partition. One side for women; one side for men. Your modesty won't be compromised."
Now I see Lois' plan. Present the situation as worse than it is.
Non-Lana burned Clark: How is it an improvement that I won't get to see Lois bathing.
"Think man-sized piranha crossed with an angry tiger."
Well, small man sized. Tigerfish get to about 110 pounds.
Clark nodded and turned away, looking up to the top of the trees and trying to dull his human-strength hearing.
Is this because it has not yet recovered to super-strength?
Clark quickly slipped the remains of his jeans
Hmm, it is probably good Lois did not point out that there is not much of his body she has not already seen.
The scourge of doubt was eroding his resolve.
he has procratinated leaving. That will make it easier to do so again.
"He said to tell you the quarantine was seven days. He said he wouldn't change his mind."
Matymbou is a very distant husband.
Lois let loose a sigh of frustration. "How's Diddi?"
"So he's like you? From the same tribe?"
Well, probably at some level this is true, but saying yes would imply a connection that is not there. Although, if she knew the truth, she might have actually said yes. Hmm.
"I don't know," Lois said. "But if he decides to go home, I won't be going with him."
, although at some level I should only believe this applies if Clark leaves soon. If he stays a while and then wants to leave, Lois may change her mind.
Kent stepped out of the hut as Lois arrived back at the campfire with the tray. She smiled at him, trying to dissolve all traces of her lingering annoyance. "Is there a problem?" he asked.
"Not really."
Lois: How could being with Kent longer be a problem?
Because she'd been worried that he would assume her indignation was due to being forced to spend extra time with him.
Wise move, that is the last thing she needs him to think.
She'd told Romaric there would be no trouble, but was she sure Kent hadn't come from the gun runners?
I don't see how that could even make sense.
But despite all that, she would continue to be guarded about her former life. She wouldn't reveal details such as her full name, her former location, her job.
it might help an awful lot.
She had no way of knowing how her disappearance had been reported. Did every American know the name 'Lois Lane'? Had they been caught up in the mystery of her disappearance? Or had it - like so many other stories - been the victim of a shadowy authority that seemed to have the power to silence the press?
I really hope that Lois and Clark go back to try and fix things. However I guess that will not be for a very long time.
Kent had given no indication he recognised her name or her story.
Hmm, I would find it hard to believe he knew nothing of her. Perry must have said something.
"I was. But not because of what Romaric told me. I was annoyed because I didn't get any reasonable explanation."
this is by far the best way to describe things. It makes it clear that she does not mind being with Kent.
"My son," Lois said with evident pride and affection."
she admits his existence.
"I wasn't married to Diddi's father."
So she just admitted to having an illegitimate child?
"And you were waiting?" Clark said. "Praying for a different outcome?"
"Not me," Lois said. "Adeline. Diddi's birth mother."
Hmm, so she is not Diddi's mother. Hmm, which makes me wonder why she phrased the above line the way she did.
"He was for two days," Lois said with a smile that tugged poignant yearning through Clark's heart. "But since then, I have been his mother, and he will always be my son. I love him more than I have ever loved anyone, and I can't imagine life without him."
Since she adopted Diddi at the age of two days, I get to say "I was right". Her "teaching him English" is effectively the same as if he were her own birth child, well unless you assume English is imbibed with one's mother's milk.
