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"What do you mean?"

"Louis, put yourself in my hands Look, if I can't pull it off, you won't really be hurt Well, not that much Game? Make up your mind I want to be off now "

He didn't say anything He was looking at me, and so affectionately that I could hardly stand it

"Yes or no "

"I'ret this, but"

"Agreed then " I reached out and placed h off his feet He was flabbergasted, looking down atI set him down

"Mon Dieu," he whispered

Well, as I waiting for? If I didn't try it, I'd never find out There ca her; of us rising together I let it slowly slip away

I swung ht hand, but that wasn't even necessary We were cli on the wind that fast

The ce toy of itself with little bits of white scattered all over under the dark trees

I could hear his astonished gasp in my ear

"Lestat!"

"Put your ar west, of course, and then north, and we're going a very long distance, and oing for some time "

The as ice cold I should have thought of that, that he'd suffer fro upwards as we pierced the great snowy mist of the clouds

When he saw the stars, I felt hiainst me; his face was perfectly s it away Whatever fear he'd felt was gone now, utterly; he was lost as he looked upward; as the dome of heaven came down around us, and theplain of whiteness below