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Judith Rainbow
I think he imagined being bitten. Clare would have noticed.
Melinda
Other people wondered about this too- but Herself addressed it in her Daily Lines on her Facebook page. (Posted today 4-1-22)
(A reader asked) “Wondering about the snake bite when Jaime was shot. Will this be addressed at a later date?”
And Diana answered, “ No need, though I think a lot of readers are erroneously assuming that all snakes are venomous. Most of them aren't, and the one that bit Jamie at King's Mountain wasn't. A non-venomous snake's bite amounts to nothing than a few tiny punctures, sometimes as much as a semi-circle, but usually just pinpricks. They wouldn't be at all obvious among Jamie's leg-hair, let alone the dirt and blood that's covering him when Claire finds him.”
(A reader asked) “Wondering about the snake bite when Jaime was shot. Will this be addressed at a later date?”
And Diana answered, “ No need, though I think a lot of readers are erroneously assuming that all snakes are venomous. Most of them aren't, and the one that bit Jamie at King's Mountain wasn't. A non-venomous snake's bite amounts to nothing than a few tiny punctures, sometimes as much as a semi-circle, but usually just pinpricks. They wouldn't be at all obvious among Jamie's leg-hair, let alone the dirt and blood that's covering him when Claire finds him.”
Maria Rose
If you know about snakes in that part of North Carolina-there are 37 varieties that live in that state, only 7 are venomous but those are extremely rare to find or encounter. There was a reference back to the snake bite that Jamie had gotten that Roger Mac had to try to remove the poison out of Jamie's leg, which occurred in a previous book. In this book, during the fighting, Jamie vaguely remembers kicking at a snake that he thought was touching his leg, at the same time he was shot in the chest, but when Claire was examining him, she found no snake bit puncture only the wound to his kneecap, so it is possible what he thought was a snake was a branch he kicked when his kneecap was hit. He was losing blood and losing focus and was barely breathing when found.
Sweetiepie_SJ
I wondered this too because it isn't mentioned as an injury so I assumed it was either metaphorical or non-venomous.
Gillian Gooch
Roger sucked the poison out,Bree found the snakes head,and made a syringe using the snakes fangs and a bag,Clair injected the bite with her homemade penicillin.
Kyri Freeman
I was confused too because I don't think there's any mention of problems with a snakebite afterward. Maybe it was a nonvenomous snake?
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