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in-the-breeze

They test to see if he is in fact affected by the strength of the sunlight – while he was outside at dawn, it did in fact feel less strong, but he was partially buried in sand and the pain ramped up over the time he was out, so it wasn't a particularly good indicator. It turns out he is in fact affected differently by different strengths of sunlight; weaker sunlight is confirmed to feel less painful and he loses his senses less quickly this time than when he went outside earlier.

After a short while, they go back inside and he cools off – it's not yet sunset, it's just slightly dimmer, so the sun still has quite strong effects on him. They have food, or rather Matt and Sadde do, though Theo cooks it because he hasn't lost that ability despite becoming a vampire, and it gradually gets towards sunset.

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subtle_influence

"So, about that sandwich you ate..."

in-the-breeze

"… About that sandwich I ate."

subtle_influence

"Did it work? At all?"

in-the-breeze

"Not as far as I can tell? It didn't make me high, it tasted– not great, but that's a possible indicator it won't help, and I don't think it's helped with the wanting to bite people but, like, I didn't have much of it and I don't have a neat quantitative indicator of how much I hunger for stuff, not really."

subtle_influence

"Nor a qualitative one, apparently."

in-the-breeze

"Not accurately enough that I can say 'oh yes that small bit of sandwich I had earlier totally helped me to be less hungry', no."

subtle_influence

"I mean, you still haven't indicated hunger in any form."

in-the-breeze

"When I was done with the deer I felt less like I needed and-or wanted to bite someone and more like 'hey know what it wouldn't be that bad an idea' instead. So, less hungry, more idiotic, similar overall tendency to bite."

subtle_influence

"Ah, so you go crazier when you get hungry, how fun."

in-the-breeze

"What, feel more desire to bite? Yeah, and feel slightly less desire when not so hungry but I usually feel high because blood?"

subtle_influence

"What a nightmare."

in-the-breeze

"Little bit, but I've successfully gone however long without doing it after the original thing, so." He shrugs and looks down a bit. "Hopefully it'll only stay as bad as this."

subtle_influence

"Mmhm. All in all, of all possible transformations into a vampire, I think this was probably one of the nicest."

in-the-breeze

"And hopefully if it is transmissible and we do decide to transmit it to people, they will have turnings that are even nicer."

subtle_influence

"Mmhm." Omnom food. "It's kinda funny that the vampire is good at cooking you know."

in-the-breeze

"Yeah, but not exactly surprising." Shrug. "It's not like I lost anything major that'd be relevant, except perhaps 'ability to taste it to see if it's okay' which doesn't really apply to stuff I've cooked loads before."

Matt White

Matt seems to be enjoying it too.

subtle_influence

"I suppose."

in-the-breeze

Theo will wait patiently while they finish eating. Apparently he doesn't have much to say.

subtle_influence

Sadde does not suffer from this problem:

"So when's your mom coming?"

in-the-breeze

"In a couple of days."

subtle_influence

"...you don't look alright about it."

in-the-breeze

He shrugs. "She's great, I just have no idea how she'll actually react to me being a vampire in person. You know, apart from the 'oh you're wonderful' going on from the sway-or-alternatively-motherhood, which is potentially very or very not reassuring."

subtle_influence

"So she arrives here and records you a bit until everything's fine, I guess?"

in-the-breeze