Surely he didn't actually think he was going to be able to kill Armand. Even if there is something different in his veins, something old and sharp like an ancient glass knife, even if he can best Armand. Even if all of that, Armand cannot actually be killed. And even if all the insults they've been hurling are true, Armand doesn't think Lestat is that foolish.
Louis, who has known Armand for so much longer, who Armand knelt for and called maitre, maitre, maitre, cannot command him any longer. Was Lestat going to appear in his ugly outfit and shining hair and say Be gone, and then Armand would be gone?
Maybe. He supposes, he has always been a slave. He stayed in Paris, he ran the theater, he cared for Nicki. It's just Lestat's poor luck that over the course of the past fifty years, Armand has grown bored with obedience. Perhaps if he had come before San Fransisco. (Does Lestat see it, as Armand thinks of it? Some imagined world, where he touches Daniel's hand on the top of the bar, and leaves with him, vanishing into the night and abandoning Louis? When it should be a haunted vision of Louis running away with the boy?)
He sighs. It is a rattling, sucking sound. His body is very damaged.
'Why have you always come to me?'
They will let the mortal police come. It will be interesting. Armand has never done this before.
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Surely he didn't actually think he was going to be able to kill Armand. Even if there is something different in his veins, something old and sharp like an ancient glass knife, even if he can best Armand. Even if all of that, Armand cannot actually be killed. And even if all the insults they've been hurling are true, Armand doesn't think Lestat is that foolish.
Louis, who has known Armand for so much longer, who Armand knelt for and called maitre, maitre, maitre, cannot command him any longer. Was Lestat going to appear in his ugly outfit and shining hair and say Be gone, and then Armand would be gone?
Maybe. He supposes, he has always been a slave. He stayed in Paris, he ran the theater, he cared for Nicki. It's just Lestat's poor luck that over the course of the past fifty years, Armand has grown bored with obedience. Perhaps if he had come before San Fransisco. (Does Lestat see it, as Armand thinks of it? Some imagined world, where he touches Daniel's hand on the top of the bar, and leaves with him, vanishing into the night and abandoning Louis? When it should be a haunted vision of Louis running away with the boy?)
He sighs. It is a rattling, sucking sound. His body is very damaged.
'Why have you always come to me?'
They will let the mortal police come. It will be interesting. Armand has never done this before.