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"I have traveled through the air, I have practiced speed I have cohway beer joints to hunt for drifters and Evil Doers, or to make a staple of the Little Drink, and I've been successful Even when I've drunk my fill I've almost always left the victio with the evil, to make it part of myself for those important moments

"I never go to hunt before ht afterwards I usually don't come back to the house until his attack is over I don't want the family in any way disturbed by what Goblin means to do But sometimes I miscalculate

"There have been no ht when I al Oliver

"But Goblin's attacks have grown ever more virulent, and as for co towhat I am I have in some massive way betrayed him, and he will take from me what he wants -- the blood And no affection or conversation is needed

"Of course, heabsence in Europe

"I've tried to talk to hiht after I feed

"And during this last year, as I proved to myself that I could hunt, that I could survive, that I could live with Aunt Queen and Nash and with Jasmine, that I could be with ht of rown far stronger and faryour help, and I think I've come to you out of loneliness

"As I believe I've indicated, I kno to go back to Petronia but I don't want to do it I don't want her sneering coldness I don't want even the softer indifference of Arion As for the Old Man, though he would open his heart to e What do any of them know of a spirit like Goblin? I've come to you to help me You've been with the spirits I risked my life to do it

"I believe that Goblin is a menace not only to me but to others, and one characteristic is now certain -- that he can travel with o, no matter how far it is from Blackwood Farm

"He is attached to me in some neay, and perhaps it has to do with the Blood In fact, I'iven hier than his link to this place

"There very well may be a liive up Blackwood Farm, that's the rub I can't be away from those who need me I don't want to be away from them And as a consequence I must battle Goblin here for my home, and for my life, if I'm to live it

"And I feel a great responsibility for Goblin I feel that I created Goblin and that I nourished him and made him what he is What if he should hurt someone else?

"I have one last detail and my story is closed

"I have seen Petronia once since I left Naples I was sitting in the Her, thinking, brooding, I don't knohat exactly, feeling my unhappiness in a sort of spectacular hen she came up the stairs, all dressed in a white three-piece suit with her hair loose and flying and full of chains of diaave reen velvet sack

" 'These are the Vampire Chronicles,' she said 'You need to read these and know these We told you about them, but we don't know if you listened Remember Don't hunt New Orleans ¡¯