Unfair to expect Daniel to know what it is Louis needs in the wake of shattering apart his life. Louis needs to know it. Needs to stand on his own and find that thing, build upon it.
Still, a measuring look, a memory of Daniel across from him at a small table with a clunky tape recorder. Revelation.
"You could."
Decisive.
More complicated than this answer acknowledges. Hardly defines what it is Louis alluding to. This thing they are to each other. How he breathed easier when Daniel appeared in this building. How he misses him as he misses Lestat, a similar depth and longing and jealousy. Daniel is not Lestat, he is something else and Louis doesn't have a word for it either, but he has this certainty.
Yes, Daniel could. Daniel already has. Maybe it is a gift only for Louis, maybe it's been true since Louis gravitated into his space at that bar all those decades ago. True now, with the two of them so changed by the course of their lives, all the missing pieces between them specifically.
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Still, a measuring look, a memory of Daniel across from him at a small table with a clunky tape recorder. Revelation.
"You could."
Decisive.
More complicated than this answer acknowledges. Hardly defines what it is Louis alluding to. This thing they are to each other. How he breathed easier when Daniel appeared in this building. How he misses him as he misses Lestat, a similar depth and longing and jealousy. Daniel is not Lestat, he is something else and Louis doesn't have a word for it either, but he has this certainty.
Yes, Daniel could. Daniel already has. Maybe it is a gift only for Louis, maybe it's been true since Louis gravitated into his space at that bar all those decades ago. True now, with the two of them so changed by the course of their lives, all the missing pieces between them specifically.