Paradise Lost has inspired some of Lestat's most beloved paintings of the Devil. He even found himself compelled to read it, in time, and found the character of Lucifer profoundly relatable. Rorschach may already be able to suspect that Lestat would take the comparison as a delightful compliment.

"Isolation weakens the barriers of the mind," Lestat agrees, swinging a foot idly outward. "It is familiarity that breeds control...or is it contempt?"

He laughs a little at himself inside his mind, the feeling of it transmitted into Rorschach's thoughts as Lestat smiles in silence. Another demonstration of the possibilities at hand.

"Your thoughts seek out companions. To cure them, expose yourself to company from which the mind recoils from communion."