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How stiff and lifeless it looked, how unlike the shining Veil

"Do they show the Veil on the evening news?"

"Over and over " He smiled No mockery Only love

"What did you think, Louis, when you saw the Veil?"

"That it was the Christ I once believed in That it was the Son of God I knehen I was a boy and this ao There arethings in this place "

"Are there?"

"Spirits? Ghosts?" He didn't seem afraid "They're small, but I feel theain came his smile "So you must know Don't you feel them?"

I shut e sound likethe times tables "

"And what are those?" Louis asked He squeezedclose "Lestat, what are the times tables?"

"Oh, you know, the way they used to teach the it in the classrooms, two times two makes four, two tihtisn't that how it goesThey're singing it "

I stopped Soht outside the chapel, between the doors to the hall and the doors to the chapel, in the very shadohere I had hidden from Dora

It was one of our kind It had to be And it was old, very old I could feel the power Someone was there as so ancient that only Memnoch and God Incarnate would have understood, or Louis, li experiences with the very ancient, perhaps

Still, he wasn't afraid He atching uard, but basically fearless

"Co in dread of it!" I said And I walked towards it I had the two sacks of books slung over ht in ht hand to be free And ht eye I still had that Who was this visitor?

"That's David there," said Louis in a si to worry about