Chapter 17With the quad Lutz now firmly in his repertoire, Danny breezes through the Grand Prix series with an ease that surprises him. It helps that he doesn’t have to compete directly with Andrei in his two assignments, but the other skater doesn’t seem surprised. “The old guard is moving out,” Andrei says on the phone one night in early December, “and we’ve always been at the top of the class for our generation. I picked you as my foil for a reason, Danny.”
“And that reason is that I’ll always be half a step behind you?” Danny asks, grumpy from a long day of practice before the Final, and sore from a couple of missed Lutzes that sent him slamming into the ice.
“Because you’re the only real competition I have,” Andrei says, not a hint of arrogance in his tone despite his words.
“Whoa
