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I thought about those policeht about the way they backed off one by one, as if fro so inherently unwholesome that their molecules told them to do it Back off

And she spoke of a Messenger from God She was so certain

"We have to leave it now," he said "It's done Others are coI don't want to see the others Do you? Do you want to answer the questions of Santino or Pandora or Jesse or whoever ht come!What more can we do? I want to leave now "

"You believe I was his fool, don't you?" I asked, looking up at him

"Whose fool? God's or the Devil's?"

"That's just it," I said "I don't know You tell me what you believe "

"I want to go," he said, "because if I do not go noill join the on the church steps¡ªMael and whoever else is there And there are others co I know them I see them "

"No, you can't do that! What if every particle of it was a lie! What if Memnoch wasn't the Devil, and God wasn't God, and the whole thing was some hideous hoax worked on us by monsters who are no better than we are! You can't ever think of joining the to it! You don't knowYou don't know about the ind and Hell You don't know Only He knows the rules Only He is supposed to speak the truth!And Memnoch over and over described Him as if He were Mad, a Moral Idiot "

He turned slowly, the light playing with the shadows of his face

Softly he asked, "His blood, Lestat, could it truly be inside you?"

"Don't start believing it!" I said "Not you! No Don't believe I refuse to play I refuse to take either side! I brought the Veil back so you and she would believe what I said, that's all I did, and this, this madness has happened!"

I swooned

I saw the Light of Heaven for an instant, or it see at the balustrade I smelled that fierce horrid smell that had arisen so often from the earth, from battlefields, from the floors of Hell

David knelt besideme by my arms

"Look at me, don't fade out on o away You understand? We'll go back hoain, dictate it to me, word for word "