Quote Originally Posted by pathoftheturtle View Post
When the hypnotized SK tells them the story, Roland says to Eddie that he's apparently been attacked by the Red and saved by "our side" and that "this makes him very special." I've been trying to understand that... did he mean that it was that event that made King special, or that he was already special, and the fact that that had happened just proves it? Or what?
I think it means he was already special, that was the whole reason the Crimson King sent the red spiders to bite him and turn him into his vampire slave. (Incidentally, I know it's off topic, but I wonder what kind of vampire it would make him, since the other vampires are changed a different way, or born that way from the prim? You don't have to answer that, just a thought that occurred as I write this...)