Lois Laka-Matymbou looked up from where she was trying to loosen the roots of a mature ginseng without disturbing the nearby immature plants. "Diddi!" she called. "Where are you?" She stood, turning towards the sound of the light, racing footsteps.
Her five-year-old son emerged from between the trees and ran up to her.
Okay, this caught me by surprise. Lois also got married. And she’s been busy. If Mr. Matymbou is around, this will be a very different story than I expected.
Yes, Lois remembered. And the memory brought the chill of trepidation. What if the man had been covertly watching them? She'd almost forgotten what it felt like to fear another human.
Okay, so Lois is – at least in part – there because she is hiding. At least, it probably started out that way.
There were dozens of chunks, splinters, and shards, and each one was going to have to be dug out, resulting in significant wounds, possible infection, and hideous scarring.
I gather that back in part 1 Tempus had set off a Green K grenade and this is the resulting shrapnel. She is right to be concerned about the risk to him of removing the K.
Bob
