"Michael and I get along decently. They're all tortured in their own way, their God was harsher on the angels than anyone else." It's very strange if you think about it. His first creations, designed to worship him and never ask questions, and they're the ones he focuses on hurting. Istredd can't make heads or tails of what their 'Father' was thinking or his motivations, but they don't know either. He's much more spiteful toward that God than anything else.

He reaches out to take Louis' hand, comfortable in their connection to do that. "I think everyone who adapts to this place eventually starts to see it as a second chance." Probably because they have to do that. Otherwise they'll be stuck in this place forever with no sense of purpose.

"I am happy here, it's not very easy when you love and hate the same people. You understand." Since Louis and he have already discussed the mixed feelings toward Lestat, and possibly even Claudia. "The way they raised us was monstrous and they weren't good people, but they were the only family I knew. And my mentor wasn't my father, but I still hoped he could change, and he's dead now."

Istredd did 'betray' Stregobor right before coming here, reporting him to the others, when he thought he was the villain. He wanted him to see justice, but not for him to die. Now they will never have closure, eternally. It's the mixed feelings that are staying with him. The Brotherhood was never something he thought could end. It was supposed to permanently exist as a headache that he would eventually have to take over like the rest of his class.

"I'll be okay, I just haven't mourned."