Oh, Smirky, you had to read "Heart of Darkness?" I'm so sorry! I don't think anyone would know that title if it weren't for college lit courses. I read it my freshman year of college and all I got out of it was "The horror, the horror!" That book is as terminally boring as "Ethan Frome," and I don't care if my English professor thought they were both brilliant works.
Yech. What a pair of depressing books.
Now back to your regularly scheduled feedback.
Clark's wavering on the knife-edge of life and death. Lois has managed to get their prison open, but there's a little complication.
Nothing like a cliffhanger to raise the old blood pressure.
When this story started, I thought it would be a standard Lois-in-danger-Superman-saves-her story. Boy, was I ever wrong. This is wonderful. You're showing Lois as an absolute heroine. Despite Kal's helplessness and her misery and their shared pain, she never blames him for not getting them out of their predicament. She never accuses him (or allows him to accuse himself) of being at fault. She works herself to the edge of exhaustion just to keep him alive, and now she's risking her life to get him out of there.
Of course, he might not survive telling Lois his
other name. I bet that chapter's gonna be a humdinger, too.
I want to read the next chapter! Before Lois grabs this emoticon!
