the same devil I always was

Paul helping Lestat find his faith again when they both wanted to be priests was kismet imo. They were always similar, and it's part of what drew Louis to him "for the first time -other than Paul, I find myself confining in another man." And while I don't think Lestat walked him off that roof, he definitely shook his faith -or broke it, that night at dinner, and Lestat knows what that feels like, what it does to a person. So of course Paul's death haunts him.( and having him accept his part in that before his own death is very in symmetry with the end of the episode where he acknowledges his part in the world ending. )

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