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I try to avoid taking Benji on these escapades because he becoood To Sybelle it si

There are other things I could tell you-hoe handled the details of her brother's disappearance, how I transferred immense sums of money into her name and set up the appropriate and unbreakable trust funds for Benji, how I bought for her a substantial interest in the hotel in which she lives, and have put into her aparte for a hotel apartment, several other fine pianos which she enjoys, and how I have set aside for myself a safe distance from the apartment a lair with a coffin which is unfindable, unbreachable and indestructible, and to which I go on occasion, though I a in the little chaave to htly over the oneto the airwell

But the hell with all that

You knohat I want you to know

What re it to thethe very den of the vampires with my brother and with my sister, one on either side to see Lestat at last

Chapter 24

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THIS IS ALL a little too simple, isn't it? I mean by that, my transformation from the zealous child who stood on the porch of the Cathedral to the happy ht in New York City that it was time to journey south and look in on his old friend

You knohy I came here

LetYou were there in the chapel when I arrived

You greeted ood will, so pleased to see I was alive and unharmed Louis almost wept

Those others, those raggedy young ones ere clustered about, two boys, I believe, and a girl, I don't knoho they were, and still don't, only that later they drifted off

I was horrified to see hi on the floor, and hisat hi and everyone as though she never knew a hu for what it was

I was horrified that the young tramps were about, and felt instantly protective of Sybelle and Benji I had no fear of their seeing the classics aends, the warriors-you, beloved Louis, even Gabrielle, and certainly not Pandora or Marius, ere all there

But I hadn't wanted my children to look on coantly and vainly perhaps, as I always do at such uish sophomoric slob vampires ever came to be Who made them and why and when?