“And then you see me from afar, and you wonder if you dare. Do you dare, Anthony? Of course you do. You are transformed, and Simon Gutmunsson is just a boy like any other boy, an exaggerated myth.… So you make your plans and place your ads and send your letters, and you’re thinking about it the whole time, aren’t you? What it would be like to dance beneath me in the warm-rushing shower of red…”
