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    "Louis felt like he was drowning and burning all at once.

    The familiar, bottomless well of emptiness and resignation pulled at his ankles. The white-hot holy fire of Claudia’s rage scorched his skin, threatening to blind him. Her vengeance had been biblical in its unflinching ferocity. There was only one way this could play out that wouldn’t destroy them all. Mutually assured destruction had nearly ruined them. Compromise had paralyzed them, trapped them in an endless stalemate.

    As things were, there was no chance at anything other than mere survival."

    Louis puts down the knife. Claudia leaves the nest. Lestat endures.

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    05 Feb 2026

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    “Wait.” Louis’ hand shoots out to grab his wrist, sending a shiver down Lestat’s spine. It’s the most they’ve touched in years, and his hand clenches in anticipation as he waits for Louis to continue. “Will you tell me more about your past?”

    Lestat hesitates. It’s not that he wants to hide anything from Louis, fuelling suspicions that he’s deliberately keeping things from him, but there are memories that are too painful to remember, much less to be spoken out loud. Promises made to keep his knowledge to himself lest he starts a chain reaction of devastating events.

    “Please,” Louis says, and his eyes seem to beg for something. “I want to know you. All of you. Will you help me understand?”

    Or: Lestat allows himself to be vulnerable. An open and honest conversation ensues.

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    04 Feb 2026

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    “Find me,” Lestat whispered when they broke the kiss. He looked at Louis the same way he had done thousands of nights before, with affection, like Louis was the only other being in the world. “Find me and we can be together again. We’ll make it right this time, mon cher.”

    Or: Louis navigates through Europe with the ghost of his dead husband. In the present day, he makes a decision.

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    04 Feb 2026

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    The dark gift was never bloodlust, or inhuman power, or immortality. It is love, the kind that alters your thinking and not only changes your belief system, but makes a new one. It is love you can never escape from, love that twists and buries and swallows you whole.

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    04 Feb 2026

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    The first surprise (besides seeing a fledgling vampire gathering rats on Rue Royale, besides feeling Lestat’s presence like an electric-shock hum beneath his skin as he followed that same fledgling into grimier, rundown corners of the city that was his, once, besides seeing Lestat miserable and quiet and clutching at his wooden mockery of a piano) is that it’s Lestat who pulls away first. The second surprise is the reason why.

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