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I have never made a vampire. The idea repulsed me, repulses me.

Because I hoped and prayed for you, that you would remain in that mortal body and save your soul. I thought you had been granted the greatest gift, that you were human again, my heart ached for your triumph! I couldn't interfere. I couldn't do it.

It was easy enough, wasn't it, in blackest misery to love two pretty strangers, a mad girl and a mischievous streetwise boy who cared for her? There was no history to it, my kiIIing of her brother. Bravo, finished. There was 500 years of history to the pain of everything else.

I'll bring you with me through this gateway. And why? Because I am a coward, and I love you too much to let you go.

How I longed just to be talking away the night with little Benji, who was such a sage, or listening to my beloved Sybelle play her sonata over and over again.

He wants you in pieces for the privilege of putting them back together as he sees fit.

Louis! This was Santiago's doing. Just like he put me to work in the wet room after. He wanted me to suffer.

Shall we take our business to the living room?

There is nothing to do but cross the Bridge of Sighs in my life, the long dark bridge spanning centuries of my tortured existence which connects me to modern times.

'Do you love me?' comes the whisper again, even as the sun dissolves the shadows. But their mute and smiling faces are pitiless. And, my anguishes complete, 'Do you love me?' I implore them again.

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I have never made a vampire. The idea repulsed me, repulses me.

I tried to hear what Claudia was saying to Madeleine, but my mind was with Louis.