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helen of troy. ([personal profile] divorcing) wrote in [personal profile] followups 2025-04-25 11:27 pm (UTC)

Not the question Louis had been expecting.

No, he had never entertained the possibility that Daniel could have been wrong. It was never a sense that Daniel was infallible, only that Daniel was incisive, perceptive in a way Louis couldn't be when it came to his own life and what was amiss within it.

Daniel had pulled apart Louis' recollection of the trial, and put a finger upon the heart of the great lie: Armand didn't save you. Lestat did.

Incredible, that he is asking now if he was right.

A breathless shift from surprise to affection, bypassing any other emotion that might have lived in-between. (His life, in pieces. His life, rendered into a book.)

"Yes," Louis tells him. "You were right."

Lestat, glossy-eyed in low light, shrugging off Louis' questions. Confirmation of the act, no answer for the rest.

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