Chapter 4 Summary

Chapter Four again continues with the other main protagonist in the story, the vampire boy Simon. In an echo of the first chapter Simon is once more confronted by the aftermath of his encounter with the beautiful Zoe, he is confused by the fact that the girl managed to resist his supernatural advances and seems somewhat immune to his charms: "He was bemused. She had not responded correctly. Her had started to moon-weave, and she had broken it. She had snapped it with her anger" (Chapter Four, p. 61).

Following Zoe, Simon lapses into his 'half-state' - that of a mist like form which we understand is dangerous to himself as the more he removes himself from his physical form the more apathetic and unworried he becomes about physical life. He concentrates on the girl that he is following as he remembers the past...