Author's Note: My Master, I note your confusion in reference to 'he who must not be named'/Okami-jin, but I would have thought that you would have made the connection between real and pseudonym due to the fact that Okami-jin is Japanese. Therefore my reference was related to (to quote) "diver-kid Japanese-Samurai-Know-it-all from camp". (if you were really wondering)
Also if you would please note, there is a very good reason for having the word 'god' in chapter 2 be lowercase g. In the bible the word 'God' refers to the one true God, our savior, and 'god' refers to lesser/false gods of the gentiles. So I am not trying to be a blasphemer! I do not believe Erik to be God.
Thirdly, my kind, wonderful Master, would you help me to persuade Lestat to read this? And if such request is refused, will you help me attack Lestat on Sunday? If you would it would be ever so helpful.
Louis
Disclaimer: I own nothing except for the last sentence.
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Chapter 5: The Tale Begins
Erik moved dreamily through the passages he had traversed through his liftime. He had fallen deep into the often turbulent pool of memory.
Images of his past flitted right before his eyes, ready to flood his waking mind if he reached for them.
Erik dwelt on Christine and his journey with her through these same passages… No, he must not. To dwell in this past brought only pain and the feeling of things lost.
Instead his mind wandered to another journey, the first time he had walked these passageways; not knowing what his future held, or even if he would live until the next day. Of course, such a thing had never been certain.
Erik kept drifting backward. Back to the very beginning.
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Erik sifted through his memories, trying to find the earliest. Dimly, he remembered images of a woman he assumed to be his mother, but nothing was certain. This figure presided through most of his earliest memories, but the first clear reminiscences dealt with the monastery…
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Author's Note: I know that this chapter was short too, and I apologize, but I wanted to fit another chapter in before I left to go to Jamaica for a week. Bye! I'll update when I get back.