Kathy Hi, Kathy. How nice to hear from you. I'm glad you're enjoying this story.
Kate I came back fairly quickly
And your guess was very close!
Mel It's lovely to hear from you, too, Mel. Sorry, for now it's one part a week.
Virginia You have enough ideas there for several stories!
Ken He added her as a wife so that she would have his protection.
This is not confirmation or denial, but I find it interesting that many people have wondered if Lois is Matymbou's only wife.
Amy Diddi is alive an in good care, or else Lois would have burst through that gate and been at his side. She may not be exactly the Lois we know, but she's *a* Lois, and she's Diddi's mother. The only thing that might stop her is concern for everyone else's safety, but she knows there's no danger that warrants quarantine.
Very good points.
Bob I like what you say about this Clark. For a variety of reasons, he isn't as confident as canon-Clark.
Clark's struggles are not just because of Lana's betrayal, they are really the result of all that came before that.
Very true.
Kathy Matymbou is telling her that Diddi was injured, but being taken care of (by Azalie and Gislane?) and will be fine.
Azalie isn't a person, it's part of the verb, 'to be'.
'Ozali?' means 'How are you?' 'Azalie' means 'He is'. (As far as I can ascertain.
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However, as you noted further down, you did a great job of predicting the meaning of Lois's conversation with Matymbou.
And you picked the 'safety net', too!
John On Clark leaving ... perhaps it's my job as the writer to keep on giving him reasons to stay
SJH Interesting idea.
Laura I *think* Lingala is still used, but it's certainly one of the lesser known languages.
MM And I don't see a motivation for Lois to leave with Clark or even just follow him as of yet,
Particularly as she would be going back to Tempus's non-Utopia.
UW Lois was angry because she felt she wasn't getting a reasonable answer from Matymbou.
His resolution is weakening. His mind tells him he has to be alone, but his subconscious is conjecturing what it would be like if he stayed.
Yep.
If I could write two parts a week, you'd be getting two parts a week. It's not going to happen any time soon. Sorry.
I enjoyed reading the speculation and counter-speculation. Nicely done!
Thanks to everyone for the comments.
Corrina.
But she's also talented enough that the "left hooks" are set up properly and not dropped out the sky. We've seen the darkness in Clark's life so far in this story -- no question about that -- but all we've heard from Lois is how these people instantly welcomed her and cared for her and how, even if she were given the opportunity to leave, she wouldn't take it. She even warned Clark (paraphrasing) that they didn't know about evil and betrayal, so please not to teach it to them. That's why expectations that they'd turn on her just as quickly surprised me; I haven't seen support for that theory in the story and wondered what you were seeing that I wasn't. 
