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"All right Say you accoin this revolution and it sweeps the world-andwill happen! But if you do, is there nothing under heaven that will demand atoneods or goddesses, is there not some way in which humans themselves-and you and I-shall be made to pay?"

"It is the gateway to innocence and so it shall be reain will the male population be allowed to increase to such proportions, for ould want such horrors again?"

"Force the men to obey you Dazzle them as you've dazzled the women, as you've dazzled me "

Chapter 31

"But Lestat, that is just the point; they would never obey Will you obey? They would die first, as you would die They would have another reason for rebellion, as if any were ever wanting They would gather together in ht We shall see enough of that by and by as it is They cannot help but beAnd there would be chaos But this way, there shall be a break in the great chain of violence There shall be an era of utter and perfect peace "

I was quiet again I could think of a thousand answers but they were all short-circuited She knew her purpose only too well And the truth was, she was right in s she said

Ah, but it was fantasy! A world without males What exactly would have been accomplished? Oh, no No, don't even accept the idea for a moment Don't evenYet the vision returned, the vision I'd glie, of a world without fear

Iine trying to explain that there had been a time when one could beto explain what rape ine And I saw their eyes looking ateyes as they tried to fatho I felt their soft hands touching me

"But this is madness!" I whispered

"Ah, but you fight me so hard, er, hurt She ca to start weeping I'd thought I knehat beauty was in woe I had for it

"My prince," she said again in a lohisper "The logic of it is elegant A world in which only a handful ofshall be a female world And that world will be e have never known in all our bloody erms in vials hich to kill continents in chen bombs which can knock the earth from its path around the sun "

"What if the wo principles of masculine and feminine, the way men so often divide if there are no females there?"

"You know that's a foolish objection Such distinctions are never more than superficial Women are women! Can you conceive of war made by women? Truly, answerwo is preposterous For the aberrant few justice will be i utterly unforeseen will take place Don't you see? The possibility of peace on earth has always existed, and there have always been people who could realize it, and preserve it, and those people are women If one takes away the men "

I sat down on the bed in consternation, like a mortal man I put my elbows on my knees Dear God, dear God! Why did those tords keep co to me? There was no God! I was in the room with God

She laughed triumphantly