This psychic shit is something else. Luring him into thinking Armand seems so vulnerable. Is he just getting suckered into it? Or is this honesty from a creature who has no memory of being human, who is operating the best it knows how? Daniel thinks of an appeal to emotion, perhaps asking Louis for insight, but he thinks that Louis would be 1) angry that this interaction is happening and 2) disappointed to find out that Daniel's first attempt to contact Armand did not involve tracking down his lawyer, but burying a note in the body of someone he knew Armand would regard as annoying. Nexts that, and thinks of an appeal to reason instead, and the books he's been digesting about adult CPTSD survivors and cult deprogramming.
Armand is something else. Beyond any navigable experience. The devil, Lestat called him, who Daniel managed to trick once. He probably shouldn't give the devil an inch, even if it's a true inch.
"Everything except involving them."
This feels like baring his throat. I liked all of it, the dead people, the victims, the uncanny visitations, tracking him down. Unnerving but fascinating. Challenging. It made him angry, it made him interested. He learned more disposing of a body that Armand brought him than he did shuffling away one he chose himself. The hitch being that psychic bomb, a shitty mouse trap, hurting somebody else.
Stupid. But he's given Armand too much of his fear already.
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This psychic shit is something else. Luring him into thinking Armand seems so vulnerable. Is he just getting suckered into it? Or is this honesty from a creature who has no memory of being human, who is operating the best it knows how? Daniel thinks of an appeal to emotion, perhaps asking Louis for insight, but he thinks that Louis would be 1) angry that this interaction is happening and 2) disappointed to find out that Daniel's first attempt to contact Armand did not involve tracking down his lawyer, but burying a note in the body of someone he knew Armand would regard as annoying. Nexts that, and thinks of an appeal to reason instead, and the books he's been digesting about adult CPTSD survivors and cult deprogramming.
Armand is something else. Beyond any navigable experience. The devil, Lestat called him, who Daniel managed to trick once. He probably shouldn't give the devil an inch, even if it's a true inch.
"Everything except involving them."
This feels like baring his throat. I liked all of it, the dead people, the victims, the uncanny visitations, tracking him down. Unnerving but fascinating. Challenging. It made him angry, it made him interested. He learned more disposing of a body that Armand brought him than he did shuffling away one he chose himself. The hitch being that psychic bomb, a shitty mouse trap, hurting somebody else.
Stupid. But he's given Armand too much of his fear already.