A Red King dreaming universal realities, he has always been blessed with superior creative, analytical and physical abilities, singing voice, and love; but, so far, he also has been equally cursed - a magnet for lesser parasitical entities with hidden agendas, contacts/capital, and petty schemes, a life replete with accidents/ills and arbitrary barriers. So, like Alice with the Red Queen, "it (took) all the running (he) could do just to stay in the same place." Happily, as the curse's inertia...