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            'You do realize,' said the heavyset head doctor, 'that no fingerprints whatsoever were found in the bathroom where you were supposedly attacked. ’             'And your part of the bargain is to leave the place entirely alone by day?’             'Yes,' he said, 'and not to kill you.             'Don't run afoul of the Vampire Lestat,' she said. Did this mean that I'd walk out of here alive?            Don't kill Stirling, that's what I was thinking; and then suddenly Lestat, as he still stared at me, made a short little laugh.

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