If Hannibal could see how Will perceives the world as he perceives it; all the visual connections Will makes fluidly, the pervading gore, the motility of dimmond’s heart shaped torso reaching for him in the shape of Hannibal’s stag, how Will perceives himself even, the erupting antlers, being birthed from the stag’s womb – if Hannibal could see all this, he’d have to be literally cut away from Will. He’d be so obsessed with him, there would be no space to breathe.