What did you do?" Kate asked." Nothing. We're inside the wards." Simon laughed and drank the elixir. She looked around with surprise. "How can you tell? At night? In the snow?"" That tree." He indicated an ash tree standing amidst other ash trees." It looks like a thousand other trees."" No, it looks like you." Simon took a shallow, pained breath, but smiled. "It's my marker." Both Kate and Malcolm stared at the tree. Kate cocked her hip. "It looks like me? A tree? That's flattering."" Yes. See how the curves--" Simon worked his hands in an hourglass shape. "It looks like you.Clay Griffith
About This Quote
The narrator asks what the protagonist did and how he knows. The protagonist says that he and his friend were in the ward and that he told him to take the elixir. He also says that the tree looks like her. The narrator then asks if she's flattered by this.
The protagonist then explains that "it looks like" the tree because the trunk of the tree is shaped like a woman’s body, her arms are linked with branches, and her head is at the top of the trunk. This illustrates that Simon saw this tree as Kate, but it also demonstrates that he is flattered by this.
Source: The Undying Legion
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