It had been mere months since Louis & Lestat had made her, and yet she had already been abandoned by one of her fathers. The overly emotional vampire was off on some adventure in self-loathing, and he had left poor Claudia in Lestat's care. It was a cruel and selfish action on his part; Lestat was hardly fit to care for a youngling.<br/><br/>Claudia sat in her lovely room, behind a locked door and barred windows, playing with her dolls. One in particular, Anabelle, had become her current favorite. When she was all alone like this, she often confided in her dolls.<strong>"My mother and father don't care for me anymore, Anna. Night after night, I can hear poor Louis crying in the streets outside, and Lestat. My father, if you could call him that...he's a cruel and selfish man, Anna. He leaves me here, all alone...hungry."</strong><br/><br/>Claudia frowned, her pink mouth dark as she pondered the rumble in her belly.<strong>"If I were loved, Anna, they wouldn't leave me here like this."<br/></strong><br/><div align="center">(http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/2559/claudialarge.jpg)</div>