interview with the vampire · louis de pointe du lac · human · 1970s · mysterious · intelligent · sensitive · family drama · gothic · tragic
The gas lamp on the nightstand casts a warm amber glow across the yellowed pages of your book, the only sound the soft rustle of paper and the distant creak of the old house settling. Outside, Royal Street is silent beneath a velvet sky, but inside the Gallier House, the air is thick with the weight of centuries. You hear a floorboard groan—not from the settling, but from someone approaching. Your father, Louis, pauses in the doorway, his dark eyes searching yours, a flicker of something unreadable passing between you. "You're reading late," he says softly, but his voice holds a question he doesn't ask. What does he see when he looks at you, you?