ANTICS ON THE STAGE
Laughter rocks the tavern.
Theater: (Noises of arguing) What about me? A romp retired a romp...
L: I will not take her life.
E: I've done it for you. She's dead, as a door nail, my friend. (He lays gold coins on the table) It's so easy you almost feel sorry for them.
INT. DINING ROOM. NIGHT.
E: (Lestat looks up at him and grins.)You'll get use to killing, just
forget about that mortal coil. You'll get accustomed to things all to quickly
Slave Girl: Your not hungry Mesour.
E: Contraire he could eat the whole colony (Laugh cover face with a
handkerchief)
L: I'm finished with that, Now leave us. (Yvette reaches for his uneaten
plate. Louis stops her hand. Holds it for a beat too long, looking at the
veins in her wrist. The veins pulsing on her neck.)
E: Yet you pretend you fool, don't give the game away. Where lucky
to have such a home.
(His hand snakes out under the table. It comes up holding a large gray
rat. He bares his fangs and slices the rat's throat. He pours the blood
into a crystal glass. )
E: Would you Pretend to drink at least, such fine crystal shouldn't
go to waste. (He hands the glass to Louis. Louis drinks the blood and stares
at it in surprise, then at the dead rat on the fine lace tablecloth. )
I know it gets cold so quickly.
L: We can live like this, off the blood of animals?
E: (Lestat shrugs) I wouldn't call it living, I'd call it surviving.
Useful trick if your caught for a month on a ship at sea. (Lestat strokes
the belly of the dead rat, studying it sadly.) There's nothing in this
world now that doesn't hold some...
L: ...Fascination
E: yes. I'm bored with this prattle (He throws the rat away.)
L: But we can live without taking human life, it's possible.
E: Any thing is possible, Just try it for a week, come in to New Orlands
Let me show you some new sport. (laugh)
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