Well, let me know what you think. I've been away for three days, and before that I couldn't see things due to everything being in Chinese.

Hopefully this will go better.

The dream with the First Slayer was a nice touch. It's too bad about Angela and Marcus, but I don't see Lois protesting too long now that she has proof of vampires.

I'm so sad for the Cortez's! I'm still following avidly.

~Anna.

Great story so far. Despite the difference from Lois and Clarks usual stuff, I am interested in what is going to happen. Laura

Dang! This is getting a little scary. Will Lois dismember and dust this vampire in front of her former family? Will Clark show up impossibly soon and reveal some of his secrets to her? Will they decide to work together or will Lois be too afraid that she's cursed or transforming into something evil?

Very good story. Yes, it's off the normally beaten path, but still very taut, very mysterious. Next part, next part, next part!

Again, I have so little time.... but Shayne, that dream was awesome. You have a nightmare and something happens in it to make you think you have woken up, but the horrors continue, only now they seem to be *really* for real. Dreaming that you have woken up while you're having a nightmare is just the worst thing.

By the way...<confession> I once dreamed that *I was a killer*. That I *killed*. I can't explain to you the horror of thinking to myself, of realizing, *I am a killer now*. Nothing is going to matter from now on, because *I am a killer*.

I can so totally sympathize with Lois for feeling cursed, because she has killed. She killed because she had to, but still, she killed.

Amazing story, Shayne! I'm still absolutely captivated.

Ann