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Melinda asked this question about Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (Outlander, #9):
Does a snake really bite Jamie in Bees or was that his imagination/bullets? Nothing else was said about a snake so I was confused!
Melinda Other people wondered about this too- but Herself addressed it in her Daily Lines on her Facebook page. (Posted today 4-1-22)
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(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.”(less)
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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
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