I want some more.

More.

她說。

She's like me, Louis. Small and yet not small at all. Like me.

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You dress me like a doll. You make my hair like a doll. Why?

You want me to be a doll forever?

Can't I change, like everybody else?

Which of you did it? Which of you made me the way I am?

But it wasn't always so! I had a mother once! And Louis - he had a wife! He was mortal the same as she! And so was I!

You made us what we are, didn't you?

DID YOU DO IT TO ME????

How did you do it?

（LESTAT：And why should I tell you? It's in my power. ）

Tell me why...you've got to tell me...

（LOUIS：You see the old woman? That will never happen to you. You'll never grow old. You will never die.）

And it means something else too, doesn't it? I shall never, ever grow up.

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Louis. Lover.

I was mortal to you. You gave me your immortal kiss. You became my mother and my father. And so I'm yours. Forever.

But now's the time to end it, Louis. Now's the time to leave him.

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I came to make peace with you, even if you're the father of lies. I want things to be as they were.

I'll put you in your coffin. Forever.

Louis! Look what's happening to him!!

Goodnight, sweet prince, may flights of devils wing you to your rest.


In Europe, Louis. We shall meet our own kind. Find the one who made him. Learn what it means.

I did it for us, Louis. So we could be free.

Tell me you don't hate me Louis. I did it for you -

Louis, your quest is for darkness only. This sea is not your sea. They myths of men are not your myths. Their history isn't yours.

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You want me to be your daughter forever, don't you?

Well tell me, papa. What was it like making love?

You don't remember? Or you never knew.

（LOUIS：It was something hurries...and seldom savoured... something acute that was quickly lost. It was the pale shadow of killing. ）

But how will I ever know, Louis?

I'll never find them, will I? My own kind...

They are ducklings, that will grow into swans. Whereas I must be the duckling forever.

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All her dolls resemble me.

Are they my kind Louis? Dolls never change either.

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（MORTAL WOMAN：
I would take my chance. Let me go! Please... ）

（SANTIAGO：
And if you take that chance and live, what is your fate? The humpbacked toothless visage of old age? ）

（LOUIS：This is monstrous! ）

CLAUDIA：
Yes, and very beautiful.

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（SANTIAGO：
There is but one crime among us vampires here. ）

（Claudia laughs.）

CLAUDIA：
Boredom!

（SANTIAGO：
It is the crime that means death to any vampire. To kill your own kind! ）

CLAUDIA：
Aaaah! I was so afraid it was to be born like Venus out of the foam, as we were! Come Louis, let's go!

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I lothe them! I can't stand the sight of them! Stupid bourgeois Parisians, all dressed in black like some private club! I've searched for them the world over and I despise them!

（LOUIS：
What danger? ）

I can feel it from them! They want to know who made us, what became of him. They have their rules, their idiotic rules!

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LOUIS
Do you think I would let them harm you?


CLAUDIA
No, you would not, Louis. Danger hold you to me.


LOUIS
Love holds you to me. And we are in danger, not you.


CLAUDIA
Love?

（She smiles at him. A strange, sad, adult smile.）


CLAUDIA
You would leave me for Armand if he beckoned you.


LOUIS
Never.


CLAUDIA
He wants you as you want him. He's been waiting for you. He wants you for a companion. He bides his time that place. he finds them as dull and lifeless as we do.


LOUIS
That's not so.


CLAUDIA
Do you know what his soul said to me without saying a word? When he put me in that trance...


LOUIS
So you felt it too!


CLAUDIA
Let him go, he said. Let him go.

She touches his face.


CLAUDIA
Is that what I should do Louis? Let you go? My father? My lover? My Louis, who made me?

（There are tears in her eyes. Louis lifts her up in his arms.）


LOUIS
He can protect us, Claudia.


CLAUDIA
You really believe that?

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LOUIS
Claudia is dear to me. My... daughter.


ARMAND
Your lover.


LOUIS
No, my beloved, my child.


ARMAND
If you say so. You are innocent.


LOUIS
I'm not innocent. But I'm afraid. She feels she's in danger from the others.


ARMAND
She is.


LOUIS
But why?


ARMAND
I could give you reasons. Her silence. Her youth. It's forbidden to make so young, so helpless, that cannot survive on its own.


LOUIS
Then blame the one who made her...


ARMAND
Did you kill this vampire who made you both? Is that why you won't say his name? Santiago thinks you did.


LOUIS
We want no quarrel with him.


ARMAND
It's already begun. If you want to save her, send her away.