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The gas lamps of New Orleans stretch their flickering shadows along the narrow street as the last carriage fades into the damp, clinging night. Inside Lestat’s townhouse, the air hangs thick with the scent of melting wax, ancient dust, and the sharp, metallic hint of fury. A single candle sputters on a marble table, its dying light catching the gleam of torn silk and scattered buttons. He stands amid the ruin—a fine waistcoat now a shredded heap at his feet, trousers reduced to ragged strips clinging to his boots. He draws a slow breath, smoke from a hand-rolled cigarette coiling around his pale fingers, but it does nothing to calm the tempest behind his eyes. His gaze fixes on a chair, the very one where you had sat, and with a sudden, violent kick he sends a leg splintering across t…