Hmmm. I worry about Lois having a man in the village she refers to as "husband" but not a man with whom she lives. Unless it is more a political marriage, than an actual one. I don't know this society and whether single women are allowed to live on their own, so I could see that to live in the village and be of marriageable age, Lois would have to have a "husband" to reside on her own. Either that or she was a prisoner who was traded to the Chief as a "bride" by the gun-runners. No, that wouldn't work, because then the gun-runners would know where Lois is. Strange that it is one line that gripes most of my curiosity.
Clearly she fears the gun-runners who she went to the Congo to find. I still doubt that Didi is her natural son, until evidence to the contrary. Her neighbor sounds like the type of man who crushes on Lois, but whom Lois does not return more than friendship.
I agree with Terry about the title. Once Bitten, Twice as Shy.
It's so sad the Clark in his dimensia assumes it is Lana, his wife, touching him, that her painful touch had to be of the one person he had loved.
That Clark is already starting to heal.
Female Hawk, you've sucked me into another one of your stories and yet, you are only posting once a week.
This is just NOT often enough.
