Typically, Lestat is an early riser. Memories of shared coffins, of waking nearly a full hour before Louis, of using that time to admire him, or lay there in warm assurance. Tonight is no exception, but he is drowsy and content when he only just registers Daniel moving about, and Daniel leaving. A sleepy flickering through Daniel's mind, undetected, finds nothing more worrisome than a restless vampire wishing to get his evening started.

Which is worrisome. Considers worrying about it. Does, in fact, feel an urge like claws descending to insist Daniel stay put. Could probably force it, if not without some damage to the dynamic. Imagines Louis would approve.

Doesn't do these things, in part because he is too comfortable, id too content. Daniel escapes unscathed.

Later, a presence in his mind.

On Daniel's end of things, there is the sense that he hasn't woken Lestat fully so much as drawn some focus from a willing half-doze. An eye cracking open, a rumble of acknowledgment.

'Getting into trouble already?' is equally hazy.