"What I'm going to do is leave it all up to River."
She would take care of Simon in ways that he never could. She had a power over him, being his younger sibling, that Hannibal would never achieve.
"You're having a little too much fun with this, and all I can tell you is that it's not going to work in your favor. Really, I'm personally going to do nothing. But you'll have to worry about what will happen when River reads you and discovers the way that you've acted. And she will."
Hannibal looked at the book. "It says: 'Teeth grow back after death like nothing ever happened to them'."