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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

"You mean, in the humans who apparently do it or normally in other animals that are actually, like, optimized for it or whatever?"

subtle_influence

"Both?"

in-the-breeze

"I have no idea," he says. "How do you think it works, though, like– I didn't actually research this."

subtle_influence

"I didn't, either, I just have vague memories of having read, but I think the relevant thing is how long the same sound takes to reach you when repeated, rather than just once?"

in-the-breeze

"Okay, right, but they're footsteps, plural, and so I'm not just relying on one? I guess the distance changes…"

subtle_influence

"I think it's more about tridimensionality, a single pulse can give you distance, multiple ones can give you shape."

in-the-breeze

"Right, so." Pause. "The confusion is, what, about whether my footsteps give me tridimensionality of the wall?"

subtle_influence

"Well no just that the way you described it didn't sound like you were doing that but if you are I stand corrected."

in-the-breeze

"I'm not consciously processing where all my footstep echoes are going and coming from and building a 3D model of the world around me, no, but I sort of– know where things are anyway?"

"Weird."

subtle_influence

"Do you know what they are, too? Presumably, I guess, you're not hitting any walls or anything."

in-the-breeze

"– I know there's a solid barrier about however tall over in a particular direction, and I know that the ground I'm walking on continues to be sidewalk and not, like, grass or road. So yeah. But not anywhere near as well as if I had my eyes open."

subtle_influence

"Can you see street signs and stuff?"

in-the-breeze

"I can tell there are poles into which I should presumably not walk, yeah. If you mean ones attached to the side of buildings or something, uh, maybe but I don't think there are any around right now?"

subtle_influence

"No, there aren—"

"What the fuck."

in-the-breeze

Theo– manages to remind himself that she is in fact a person without even taking more than a few steps in her direction.

Keeps his eyes shut and tries to cover his face.

Matt White

Matt jumps! And looks around for her.

Willow Maxwell

She wasn't actually walking towards them but now she is. "What. The. Fuck. Hadn't you died. You were dead. What happened."

Matt White

"Died what yeah um," says Matt. "Who are you again – do we know each other?"

He then smiles a bit strainedly and says something under his breath.

in-the-breeze

Theo starts walking away from Willow!

Willow Maxwell

"I'm Willow, why are you walking away!"

Matt White

"Hi Willow," says Matt. "So, I totally understand where you're coming from, I know it's been a stressful few days, but I'm not sure this is the best way to cope with it."

in-the-breeze