I realy like your story, but for me this was the worst of all chapters... The character of shy/unexperienced Lindsay changed to much (or better say: It didn't change - she was always like this, because she's not new to this "village")
And at this Point in the story the story itself changed from "fully realistic, can happen every day" to "unrealistic" (in my eyes). It's like there's a new author... I hope the story change back to the realistic part very soon (you could easyly solve this by "that was a dream Pat had at night" or similar).
It's not anymore the story i started to read
(And i realy liked the story before! One of the bests here
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