Wow! Thank you all again, very much indeed!!
It's much more of a North American name. The weird thing about Inch is that its name means exactly the same in Irish -
an inse = inch. Many strange-sounding Irish place-names make perfect sense once you realise their Irish-language origin and translate them, but not that one.
Take Dublin, for example, which is an Anglicisation of
Dubh linn, or 'black pool' - referring to the Liffey river as it was when the Vikings invaded over 1000 years ago.
Anyway... back to the point.
Sarah, I'm glad you found Lois's still-recovering behaviour convincing. Phew! As my BRs know, it took me a few tries to make that one better.
SJH, why wouldn't Lex make sure Lois was dead? Well, if you think about it, she should have been. I mean, she was drugged and in the lake. She was close to death when Clark found her. Okay, she was clinging to a branch, which was probably all that stopped her from drowning - but if Clark hadn't found her she'd have died from hypothermia very soon after. Why would Lex imagine that anyone would save her? Okay, a helicopter was out searching for her, but - as you saw - there really wasn't much of a search-and-rescue mission going on. And I'd hazard that he didn't raise the alarm for her disappearance until some time after he'd pushed her into the lake.
Until he was pretty sure that she was long dead.
Thank you all again very much, guys! Part 4 will be up soon.
Wendy
