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And all this for the ist, back from the inner circle, who sells the tribe's secrets for a slot on the best-seller list

So let the deods ith each other This mortal has been to the top of the mountain where they cross swords And he has come back He has been turned away

The next night, the dream had returned with the clarity of a hallucination He knew that it could not have been invented by him He had never seen people quite like that, seen such simple jewelry made of bone and wood

The drea a Lestat rock video for the fifteenth tiyptian Father and Mother of the vampires, Those Who Must Be Kept:

Akasha and Enkil, We are your children, but what do you give us? Is your silence A better gift than truth?

And then Daniel was dreain the feast They would share the organs on the earthen plates One would take the brain, the other the heart

He'd awakened with a sense of urgency, dread So to happen to all of usAnd that was the first time he'd connected it with Lestat He had wanted to pick up the phone then It was four o'clock in thein Miami Why the hell hadn't he done it? Ar on the terrace of the villa, watching the tireless fleet of white boats wend its way back and forth fro voice "Calm down and tell me where you are, Daniel "

But Daniel hadn't called Six ht Island, and this tiood He had once and for all forsworn the world of carpets and limousines and private planes, of liquor closets stocked with rare vintages and dressing roo presence of his iave him every earthly possession he could want

But noas cold and he had no room and no money, and he was afraid

You knohere I am

, you demon You knohat Lestat's done And you knoant to come home

What would Armand say to that?

But I don't know, Daniel I listen I try to know I am not God, Daniel

Chapter 5

Never o And tos on a San Francisco stage And so to happen This mortal knows