The Road to Immortality

Normally hidden, content to linger in quiet mystery, it appeared that one of them had thrown caution to the wind, and seemed to be opening up the doors to his kind and freeing their mysteries to the world at large. Within the Talamasca, we had hitherto prided ourselves on our unique insight into the days and ways of these immortals, so you can imagine how disconcerting it was to see that much of what we had spent years uncovering had suddenly become available in hardcover and paperback. And yet, there was something devilishly exciting about it.

Louis de Pointe du Lac was his name.

The novel was entitled ‘Interview with the Vampire’, and provided the public with its first glimpse of not only Monsieur Pointe du Lac, but also his extraordinary and unlikely friend and foe, the now famed Lestat de Lioncourt.

If Louis’ open revelations surprised us, the events that followed went far beyond our wildest expectations. Lestat decided to go public with his story; only, his approach, in the beginning, was entirely different. Art imitating life imitating art.

Of course, there is nothing terribly revolutionary about a rock singer calling himself a vampire. The extraordinary element of the whole affair was, of course, that in his case it was absolutely true. Fortunately for all involved, this was lost upon his horde of adoring fans. But it was not lost upon the Talamasca.

Shortly after, I received the first of many visits from Lestat de Lioncourt.

Neither of us knew it then, but from that moment onward, the course of my life would be severely and permanently altered. He descended like a bolt of lightning, shattering every trace of order and equanimity in the life I had so comfortably resigned myself to.

It was the end of the beginning, and the beginning of the end. It was understated at the time, and yet so momentous in hindsight.

It was the marker on the road that would lead me to immortality.

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