Yes!!! Lois has begun fighting the dragons! And oh, what an appropriate first dragon she has found. Boy, that dragon is going to take a lot of stabling, but Lois is up to it, no doubt!
I love your careful description of Lois's life as an intern at the Daily Planet and all the little things an internship there would entail. Are you just supremely knowledgeable, Janet, or have you by any chance been an intern at a newspaper yourself? Or perhaps even worked as a reporter? Don't tell me - you
are a reporter?
I love this story. I love your Lois. I love to hate your Claude. I love to wait for Lois's meeting with Clark. I'm in awe of your linguistic skill, crafting this story. I love what you are doing, pure and simple.
Thank you so much for posting this part right after I had posted that little reminder (
). This gem of a story simply has to be allowed to unfold and eventually to be brought to a conclusion.
Ann
P.S. Janet, I wrote, and posted, this before I had read your post commenting on the FDK on the previous part. So I hadn't noticed that you said this:
This particular story has been much harder to write than the little pieces I've posted previously, as it's much more serious. It's got more of... I guess you can say, me invested in it, than the others have - even Cloud Nine, which was my first really serious effort at writing fanfic.
Anyway. So it feels more... exposed, I guess, to post this story.
And maybe this is why your story rings so true and packs such an emotional punch. Thank you for giving so much of yourself here, and for making this story so quietly, overwhelmingly compelling.
