Lovely story with insight into Lois's mind during this time. Shows her vulnerability and insecurity beautifully.
Don't know about others, but RL has become incredibly busy as a major new project was given to me unexpectedly this month, and my reading and commenting have been curtailed as a result. Except for stories I started following already, I'm limiting myself to completed new stories, due to issues with following multiple long stories simultaneously. Could be senior moments, but I'm not admitting to that.
There's a long thread which discusses the lack of comments on the boards over the past few months called, appropriately,
Comments.