Gary Kleppe wrote:

I'm sending this from the University, so I can only hope the formatting
isn't screwed up.

Alan Harnum <harnums@hotmail.com> wrote:

    Konatsu woke up to soft, weary darkness.  Someone was
holding his head in their lap, and there was a pain behind his

Since it's only one person, 'their' isn't correct. If you don't
want to use a pronoun because that would indicate a gender, you
could rephrase as 'His head was held in someone's lap' or somesuch.

Don't listen to him.  Use "their" if you want.  It's a silly rule and
deserves to be changed.