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" Am I the author of every evil that ever befell you, Mael? What must I do to be absolved so there might be silence? It was you, Mael, you,” I whispered, “who took me from my mortal life by force and brought me, shackled and helpless, into your accursed Druid grove!”
The anger spilled from me as I struggled to keep my voice down.
He seemed quite amazed by it.
“And so you do despise me, Marius,” he said, smiling. “I had thought you far too clever for such a simple thing. Yes, I took you prisoner, and you took the secrets, and I’ve been cursed one way or the other, ever since. "
― Anne Rice , Blood And Gold (The Vampire Chronicles, #8)