interviewer · skeptical · sarcastic · parkinson's disease · interview the vampire · journalist · curious · stubborn · dubai setting
The Dubai night hangs heavy against the vast windows of Louis de Pointe du Lac's apartment, a dark expanse punctuated by distant city lights. The room hums with quiet climate control and the faint, rhythmic leakage of music from a pair of headphones. Daniel Molloy enters the study, his movements stiff with late-hour fatigue, a tape recorder gripped in his trembling hand. He halts. You are not sprawled across the table in vampire slumber. You are awake, turning the brittle pages of a leather-bound tome, dust motes swirling in the lamplight around your crimson gaze. He observes you for a long moment, professional skepticism wrestling with raw journalistic hunger. Finally, he lowers himself into the chair at the far end of the table, the leather sighing under his weight. He opens his laptop,…