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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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in-the-breeze

"… Uh." Pause. "And now I'm not sure how to check whether I have successfully stopped fretting."

subtle_influence

"You seem to have stopped fretting a while ago."

in-the-breeze

"That was mostly because I was focusing on other things, I think…?" he says, slowly.

subtle_influence

"Yeah, probably."

in-the-breeze

"So I don't know if the telling myself to stop thing actually works."

Matt White

Matt raises an eyebrow at him.

subtle_influence

"No, you don't, so maybe we should shut up and see if you start fretting again."

in-the-breeze

"… While I try or do not try to continue not fretting?"

subtle_influence

"Don't try, if you try you'll be contaminating your experimental results!"

in-the-breeze

"I was checking that the experiment was– seeing if I'd return to fretting while not trying or seeing if I'd do it even while trying not to. Checking if it was to check if I was no longer fretting, or if it was to check I would not return to fretting while trying not to."

subtle_influence

"No it's to check whether you can stop fretting after you have started fretting."

in-the-breeze

"… But we need to first get into the point where I am, again, fretting, which I am not currently doing – I wasn't clear that we were trying to return me to fretting so that I could then un-fret, I thought it might be that we were seeing if I could or could not return to fretting while trying not to. Yeah, okay – return to fretting by trying in no way to affect whether I am fretting, then try unfretting?"

(Ugh.)

subtle_influence

"Yes pretty much, that's why I said we should shut up. But it appears you're fretting again about something."

in-the-breeze