Louis' No feels like a second slammed door. Daniel has a brief impulse to snap at him. Just because Lestat explodes doesn't mean Louis should implode. It's not actually better to hold it together if everything happening inside is corrosive, which it plainly is. Daniel is angry at Lestat for doing this now, he's frustrated at Louis for borderline picking a fight there at the end.
And he's still worried. The prevailing feeling in him is unsteady, tense and roiling concern, because Louis ran into the sun once, and Armand made him relive it, and Louis looks so fucking haunted. Daniel can't speak for a moment, emotion strangling him. He wants to find Armand and scream at him, even though he knows it wouldn't do anything, would just result in eyes staring owlishly back at him, watching him like a science experiment, heartless.
"Sure," he manages to say, and he just sounds sad.
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And he's still worried. The prevailing feeling in him is unsteady, tense and roiling concern, because Louis ran into the sun once, and Armand made him relive it, and Louis looks so fucking haunted. Daniel can't speak for a moment, emotion strangling him. He wants to find Armand and scream at him, even though he knows it wouldn't do anything, would just result in eyes staring owlishly back at him, watching him like a science experiment, heartless.
"Sure," he manages to say, and he just sounds sad.