Stops and starts. Daniel wants to pull him closer and hold him. Daniel wants to get up and put distance between them. This feels good and it feels confusing, too. (Lestat, in one of his spirals, firing until he hits something, asks Are you in love with him? and Daniel makes himself say No, and Lestat laughs at him. It's spiteful and mocking but it's afraid, too, and it just makes Daniel ashamed.)

Did he?

Daniel's gaze darts away. Confusion and something else, embarrassment?

"I think I really am implanting false memories," he says. "I have nightmares about—"

Armand, killing my kids

"Doesn't matter. Impossible shit that I know never happened."