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Lestat,

If you find this letter in your house in the Rue Royale, and I do sincerely think you will find it -- you'll know at once that I've broken your rules

I know that New Orleans is off limits to Blood Hunters, and that any found there will be destroyed by you And unlike ue invader whom you have already dispatched, I understand your reasons You don't want us to be seen by members of the Talamasca You don't want a ith the venerable Order of Psy

chic Detectives, both for their sake and ours

But please, I beg you, before you come in search of me, read what I have to say

My name is Quinn I'm twenty-two years old, and have been a Blood Hunter, as htly less than a year I'm an orphan now, as I see it, and it is to you that I turn for help

But before I make my case, please understand that I know the Talaiven to endary neutrality as regards things supernatural, and I will have taken great pains to elude the this letter in your flat

That you keep a telepathic watch over New Orleans is plain to me That you'll find the letter I have no doubt

If you do co a swift justice to me for my disobedience, assure me please that you will do your utmost to destroy a spirit which has been my companion since I was a child This creature, a duplicate of roith er to humans as well as to myself

Let me explain

As a little boy I named this spirit Goblin, and that ell before anyone had told ht appear Whether the name came from the spirit himself I don't knoever, at the mere mention of the name, I could always call him to me Many a time he came of his own accord and wouldn't be banished At others, he was the only friend I had Over the years, he has beeneverknown to thened and shaped Goblin, unwittingly creating the monster that he is now

The truth is, I can't iine it I have to put an end to Goblin before heutterly beyond my control

Why do I call him a monster -- this creature as once my only play made a Blood Hunter -- and understand, I had no choice whatsoever in the matter -- Goblin has acquired his own taste for blood After every feeding, I am embraced by him, and blood is drawn frothening the irance which Goblin never had before With each passing er, and his assaults on ed

I can no longer fight him off