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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

"Thanks, I guess," he says. "So. Echolocation or dwellings thingy."

subtle_influence

"Echolocation's easier in the immediate case, maybe you could use it while we walk to my place?"

in-the-breeze

"Any particular non-obvious things I need to do for you to be satisfied whether I can do it, or just shut my eyes and walk along with you?"

subtle_influence

"...I mean we're not looking for my personal satisfaction here."

in-the-breeze

"– That's not what I meant," he says. "I mean, I'm not thinking of any clear things that would make this be 'cheating' or whatever but I'm trying to clarify what I should do to try to get the sort of information we want, here, and echolocation was mostly your idea."

subtle_influence

"Well, you're the one inside your head, if we reach a place you don't know by heart and you tell me can use your hearing to locate yourself I'll believe you."

in-the-breeze

"Okay," he says. "Should I start now or when we get to the place?"

subtle_influence

"Start now, why not."

in-the-breeze

So he does! And he can move around just fine.

subtle_influence

"Are you going by noise?"

in-the-breeze

"Footsteps echo."

subtle_influence

"Yeah, I figured as much, just surprised it was enough, you weren't sure it would be without high pitches."

in-the-breeze

"– I mentioned that some humans can do it?"

subtle_influence

"By clicking their tongues, usually, or just otherwise repeating the same noise at regular intervals."

in-the-breeze

"Right. But I didn't think clicking your tongue was a high pitch."

subtle_influence

"I don't know, maybe not, but it is at least more periodic in general they footsteps I think."

in-the-breeze

"More periodic meaning – more regular, or done more often, or…?"

subtle_influence

"I mean I'm pretty sure it's made so that there's an actual period."

in-the-breeze

"Oscillation period, you mean? Yeah, I think they do it at a sort of, uh, regular interval. I'm not sure, though."

subtle_influence

"Yeah, anyway, still impressive."

Matt White

"Yeah," agrees Matt. "So– are you just listening for how long it takes, or…?"

in-the-breeze