you're too young & eager to love

If I ever stop loving vampires, or Anne Rice, it may be time for me to transcend to the next, higher realm. Or something.

I was originally trying to do a Lestat and Maharet piece, but I wanted to do something more intimate (and with a male character that I could decently write). So, voila, Maharet and Mael instead.

Sometimes, when writing not-original fiction, I like to make notes before the story starts. Usually to explain/remind readers of certain things but mostly because I worry I won’t remember when I reread this in a few months. This piece’s notes are: Mael was a druid priest and seems to, at one point, favored haunting around Northern Europe. Him and Marius know each other, fight each other for what I consider to be petty reasons, but Marius does show Akasha and Enkil to Mael. This all, naturally, happens before Mael becomes Maharet’s companion. We, as readers of the Chronicles, know that legends of Mael existed when Lestat was still a fledgling vampire, and so he’s considered one of the ancient ones. You know, until Maharet arrives and makes the term ancient synonymous with youthful.

To my knowledge, we are never told how Mael and Maharet became companions. We’re only told that Mael is fearful of her but adores her, even in a slightly submissive, subservient way. So, I took my own liberties there.



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