Heard in other brains as a separate and distinct entity, but everyone had expected as much.Was Amel unhappy with this development? Had Amel’s thirst become an agony because hewas confined to one vampiric body? Lestat never said. They all knew that Amel could no longer travel into the minds of others, no longer be As for the Prince,ğareed couldn’t imagine what life was really like for him now, and thePrince obviously didn’t care to share. He received acknowledgments with sad eyesand bitter smiles.ğareed understood this only too well. But Louis took no pleasure in his triumph. Andğareed had acknowledged more than once that Louis’s simple understanding of old-fashioned Theosophical rhetoric had led them in the right way. Louis’s simple explanation became the explanation that most could understand. Or as Louis described it, each and every one had his or herown etheric body with its etheric brain-the etheric brain collected, formed, and developed inthe biological brain of the fledgling when the vampiric blood of the master had first gone intoit, and the etheric body that had developed from that etheric brain all through the biologicalbody of the fledgling as the vampiric blood circulated through the biological body driven bythe biological heart. Nothing, that is, except that each and every oneof them was now a discrete entity. And vampires of all ages would be hard put not to keep imaginingthings in the wake of the Great Disconnection, and it might be years before anything like afull picture of properties and probabilities and expectations could be made. But this was just the beginning.ğareed would be gathering data on an infinite number ofaspects of each and every individual whose nightly progress he followed-for years to come.Flannery Gilman, who worked at his side for hours without speaking, would keep feeding thedata into the computers. Was the fledgling somehowconnected to the master, as all the tribe had once been connected toĚmel? No. And the vast majority of the Undead could still read the minds of others andthe minds of mortals.Ěnd finally early in the morning on this very night, a new fledgling hadbeen made securely by a vampire in Oxford,Ğngland-an old coven master willing to attemptthe step with one he’d loved for a long time-and it had worked. No one now disconnected from the Core was in fact aging or falling topieces, and none of the elders had lost the Cloud Gift, or the Fire Gift, or the Mind Gift, orany other gift.
The first panicked callsproved false alarms. 29 FareedIT HAD WORKED, and for nine nights,ğareed had been writing, writing endlessly as to how andwhy it had worked, and how it had affected the tribe worldwide.
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