[It burns less brightly now than it did a moment before, but it's still there. Now it sits as an unhappy frustration -- at Louis pushing for things he knew Lestat did not want to discuss, at being punished by Louis when the answers he'd asked for appeared. At how Louis had wanted to hurt him and did it so easily, even if it shifted to regret.]
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[It burns less brightly now than it did a moment before, but it's still there. Now it sits as an unhappy frustration -- at Louis pushing for things he knew Lestat did not want to discuss, at being punished by Louis when the answers he'd asked for appeared. At how Louis had wanted to hurt him and did it so easily, even if it shifted to regret.]
But I don't want you to leave, either.