'I remembered tearing up the hill with a speed I rarely showed to anyone, because she was burning like a star and being consumed like oxygen. Fear like I had never know. Fear for myself because I was in danger and had no wish to die. Fear for her because she was disappearing in the heart of that crackling, electric inferno, leaving something dark and other in her place. Fear of her, of the terrible beauty of her power and the way I was drawn to it. And tangled beneath all of these things, fear of the girl herself, when all power was pushed aside. She was a different kind of danger for me. A new danger, unknown until I met her.'