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  1. Public Bookmark 1

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    He lets her do it. He allows it. And the very thought is intertwined with the bitterness that characterizes all its peers. Claudia still lives imprisoned in the same garden of thorns and gates where Louis planted her stolen fruit. Claudia lives trapped in the prison of shame that Louis has built around himself, in the foolish presumption of being protected.
    He is the one who eats that boy in the end. He does it in a dark alley off Boulevard de Strasburg, after inviting Claudia to chase a particularly large dog that was happily following the lively crowd of people. He does it violently and without any regard for his young age, and in doing so steals his only joyful memory. The very image of his daughter, her ruby eyes shining in the beauty of the night, her smile so dazzling that it lifts him out of the catatonic noise of the bombs echoing insistently in the back of his mind. He does not dispose of his body, he does not commemorate him, he does not pay his respects. He simply kneels at the end of the lane, where he hopes not to be seen, his hands clasped and raised to the sky in silent prayer.
    “Forgive me,” he begs a god who does not listen, “Forgive me, forgive me, my lord—I did not want to be like this.”

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    10 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 20

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    Lestat stumbles through a haze in which nothing is clear but ghosts. The drugs banish them, usually, but it isn't a perfect science—on an unlucky night, what yesterday swept them away resummons them tenfold.

    Tonight is an unlucky night.

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    07 Jan 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 99

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    Louis turns each test over one by one.

    Pregnant. Pregnant. Pregnant. Pregnant. Pregnant.

    Fuck.

    He can’t believe Lestat finally managed to knock him up.

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    28 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 9

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    "We'll all be fine this time. We're better now. Stronger, kinder, wiser. It won't be like before." Louis isn't talking about the curse anymore, Lestat realizes, eyes welling up with tears. "We won't make the same mistakes again. We'll do right by our child this time around. I know it."

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    Lestat is cursed by a vengeful witch, forced to undergo pregnancy and all its complications against his will. When the curse finally runs its course, he chooses to try again with Louis. The complications that arise the second time around are external, ancient, and even more impossible to fight back against.

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    08 Dec 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 44

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    The man sitting in front of him is a vampire, that much is clear from the moment he first laid eyes on him. He's interested in renting the entire venue out for a few nights, hosting a private party for some old friends. He’d like music, and drinks. Live music, if possible, live music and drinks in the same package, if they would be so kind. And a special request, one he has not divulged yet, but which Louis is sure they will find a way to accommodate.

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    Being in the spotlight opens the possibility of coming face to face with some old ghosts, and when hallucinations and reality have started to blur into each other in your mind, who's to say what's real and what's not?

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    27 Nov 2025