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For a second I couldn't believe it My heart stopped in my chest

Then I walked into the house, a steady furious walk that would have stopped for nothing but to find the truth of what I believed

In an instant I saith ether, the beautiful lithe figure of Pandora in a gown of brown silk, girdled at the waist in the old Grecian style, Marius in a light velvet s jacket over silk trousers, and my children, own, dancing barefoot and wildly around the roorasp the air in theeous Sybelle, with her arms bare too in a dress of deep rose silk, at the piano, her long hair swept back over her shoulders, just striding into the First Moveain

All of them vampires, every one

I clenched my teeth hard, and covered my mouth lest my roars wake the world I roared and roared into my collapsed hands

I cried out the single defiant syllable No, No, No, over and over again I could say nothing else, screa else

I cried and cried

I bit down so hard with s of a bird that wouldn't let ain the tears streamed out of my eyes as thickly as they had when I kissed Lestat

No, No, No, No!

Then suddenly I flung out ot loose, it would have burst froreat force and flung ainst himself

I struggled to get free I kicked at hith, and I beat at him with my fists

"How could you do it!" I roared

His hands enclosedht off with desperate flinging gestures

"How could you? How dare you? How could you?"

At last I gained enough leverage to smash his face with blow after blow