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"Now, the iels of Earth, the Watchers, those who became intent upon the Creation, came from all these ranks! Even from the very Seraphim there have come Guardians who have spentand co is common The disposition I describe is innate but not fixed

"Angels aren't perfect You can see that already They are Created Beings They don't know everything God knows, that's obvious to you and everyone else But they know a great deal; they know all that can be known in Tiels differ, you see So in Time, and some care only for God and God's reflection in those of His most devoted souls "

"I see, then What you're saying is everybody's right about it, and everybody's sort of wrong "

"More right than wrong Angels are individuals, that is the keyWe Who Fell are no single species, unless being the brightest, themakes us a species, which I don't think it does "

"Go on "

He laughed "You think I' to stop now?"

"I don't know," I said "Where do I fit in? I don't mean me, Lestat de Lioncourt, I mean what I amthe vampire I am "

"You're an earthbound phenoet to that in a moment When God sent us down to Earth to Watch, specifically to observe all Mankind, ere as curious about the dead as the living¡ªthis wreath of souls we could see and hear, gathered about the world, and which we called Sheol immediately because it see souls was the realloom "

"And the spirit that made the vampires¡ª"

"Wait It's very simple Let me present it, however, as it came to me If I don't do that, how can you understand my position? What I ask of you¡ªto be my lieutenant¡ªis so personal and so total that you can't fully grasp it unless you listen "

"Please go on "

"All right A gathering of Angels decided to go with me, to draw as close as possible to Matter in order to pull together for ourselves our entire knowledge, to better comprehend, as God had asked us to do Michael caels

There were a few Seraphim There were a few Ophanient angels, but nevertheless angels, andry with God

"I can't give you the number of how many ere But e reached the earth, ent our separate ways to perceive things, and careed upon e had seen