Life can be terribly unfair, can鈥檛 it? Everything seems so golden one minute then turns to ashes the next. Can I ask you a question, Carson? Have you ever felt that your life was somehow slipping away, and there was nothing you could do to stop it?
I've been studying the story of Andromeda, do you know it? Her father was King Cepheus, whose country was being ravaged by storms, and in the end, he decided the only way to appease the gods was to sacrifice his eldest daughter to a hideous sea monster. So, they chained her naked to a rock. But the sea monster didn't get her, did he? No. Just when it seemed he was the only solution to her father's problems, she was rescued. By Perseus. That's right. Perseus, son of a god. Rather more fitting, wouldn't you say? That depends. I'd have to know more about the princess and the sea monster in question.