A good part. It shows that Lois's husband isn't worried about the village's safety due to Kent's "green illness". Is he trying to set up his wife with this new man, I wonder? I thought Clark might be a little more frightened by the rocket reference, but Lois seems to brush aside those worries quite easily.
"I'm fine. Really. I'm glad Diddi's here."
"Diddi isn't … We need to talk."
What isn't Diddi, Lois? I wonder what she was going to say? Diddi isn't going to come between us?
"What about Matymbou? Is he all right?"
Diddi nodded. "But he says he can't eat today."
"Why not?" Lois asked quickly.
"'Cause they're going to roast the hog for dinner tomorrow night and he said he's going to eat half of it all by himself."
Diddi is
"No," he said. "She let me believe for more than two months that I was going to be a father."
Maybe it's a good thing that Lois is in the Congo and not Metropolis. Lana was really cruel to Clark, treating him in this manner.
The feeling gushed over him again. Belonging and acceptance. They formed a barrier, wrapping around his heart and standing in staunch defiance of the unworthiness that had stalked him since the moment he'd understood that he was different.
Awwwwwwwwwwwww.
Diddi supplemented the game with a steady stream of - mostly unintelligible - commentary, interspersed with excited yelps at success and dramatic gesticulations at near misses.
So, he has a future as a RL soccer commentator?
Lois - her skirt tied around her thighs, her face glowing deep pink, her hair becoming more dishevelled as her braids worked loose - was captivating.
That's the endorphins talking, Clark. Don't listen to them. She's a married woman!
How did she do it? How could she touch his heart with simple words and a friendly smile?
And how was he going to face life in the village, where he would no longer need the care of a medicine woman and she would have returned to her husband?
This doesn't sound like a man who is planning on leaving.
"No. About his name. You said Diddi isn't Matymbou's stepson."
"He's not."
"Then why is his name, 'Didier Sol-Matymbou'?"
Yes, that confused me too.
"My name is Lois Laka-Matymbou.
Ah-Ha! The lie. Laka isn't Lois's last name, nor is it the name of her mother (Ellen) or her father... oh, wait, only son's get their father's name attached to theirs.
Nope that doesn't work. "Laka" must mean spouse. Darn, the lie is something else.
Sol = Son
Moa = Daughter
Did I understand this correctly?
"It's not so complicated once you get used to it," Lois said. "It's like a big jigsaw puzzle - everyone fits somewhere."
And Lois married Matymbou because she couldn't just be "Lois" she needed a status in the village, for her name, so she "married" the chief. Clark now needs a status with the village, therefore Matymbou is setting him up to be Kent Laka Lois? And Diddi Sol-Kent?
Lois was married. Whatever she had been trying to tell him about her marriage, it didn't change that she was married. To a good man.
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Her marriage had been fundamental to his decision to stay. A married woman could offer him only friendship. A married woman couldn't get too close.
Yeah, wasn't Lana a married woman, who got close to a man who wasn't her husband? Just saying...
A married woman couldn't shatter his heart.
Uh... Lana. Married. Shattered his heart.
A married woman had no right even being in his heart … not as anything more than a friend.
Good luck with that, Kent.
She had been determined Clark wouldn't venture into the jungle alone and face certain death. She had been determined his body would heal. Now, she was determined …
What, exactly, were her plans for him now?
Kent Laka-Lois.
He never wanted to love again.
Tooooooo late.
She'd been going to tell him that whatever he thought had happened, it couldn't go any further. She was married.
She was going to stay married.
Er... um... Nice assumptions there, Kent.
It lasted less than a second, but her meaning was clear. This was her family, and he was welcome.
Uh-Oh, Kent. Lois laka you.
