"It sounds like you'd maybe get used to it? But it's more often than people could, like, ask, probably."

"Mm," he nods. "Hopefully I don't just build up a habit of swiping it to dismiss, I actually, like, check – obviously I'm going to try to check."

He sets it, checks to make sure he doesn't actually happen to want to chew down on anybody nearby to the extent that he previously hadn't realized they were a person, and then puts his phone back in his pocket.

"You could still probably cause quite a lot of damage in ten minutes, though."

"– I can cut it down, this is part of why I asked if I should reduce the interval, but yes, I could cause a lot of damage."

"Would the alarm even call your attention if you were bitey?"

"Might make me recall that I'm supposed to check if I'm bitey – I'd probably notice that the alarm went off and then if I didn't think it a waste of my time or something probably check – but no, not necessarily. It's better than me just totally forgetting to check it though, I think."

"Yeah, and I guess since this is to just, like, track your progression..."

"I'm not sure how we can actually get me to safely notice once I'm past it and stop without someone with sway telling me to stop," he shrugs. "This should at least give an idea of when I get to 'slightly peckish' though."

"Stop what?"

"Hunting for someone to bite and-or actually biting someone."

"The alarm's theoretically supposed to warn you before you get to that point."

"Yeah, but Willow raised the point that it wouldn't actually stop me if I got past that point without noticing beforehand."

"Hmm... So you'd kinda need a live-in spotter."

"Unless it gets to be enough of a habit?" he shrugs. "And long-term, if we can work out a schedule, like I feed for thirty seconds per day and would get peckish after about twenty-six hours, then I probably wouldn't need someone live-in so long as we made sure not to let me get peckish."

"We should look up what human blood replacement rate is."

Theo does so! "Apparently blood donation is usually about a pint, which is like ten percent of your blood volume, and you can donate every twelve to sixteen weeks."

"...hm. I think I probably have more blood in general when I'm a boy, but even so that doesn't look terribly promising unless you need to feed 'basically never.'"

"Yeah, it's not looking promising if my blood doesn't heal it up."

"Even if it does, it'd have to heal up more than you had to consume to produce it in the first place, and we're back at the infinite blood hack. I wonder if there's a way to measure how much blood I currently have in my body, even approximately."

Shrug. "Blood pressure you could at least do it relatively, work out how long it takes to get back to a state you were at before? But I don't know if you can measure it all, no – maybe by like, a CT or something, but we don't have access to one unless I try swaying people."

"...let's try to minimize the amount of mind control going on."

"Yeah, agreed."

"Is there a known relationship between BP and relative blood quantity? Or average BP or something."

He does a bit more googling and then reports, "Apparently blood viscosity can also change and mess with the results, and when you replenish blood you gain back certain components faster than others – red blood cells come in later – which changes the viscosity itself, so it doesn't seem like there's an easy relationship without directly testing your blood viscosity and your blood pressure and then seeing if there's some number for the relative blood quantity." Pause. "But it also depends on your cardiac output, which would mess with the systolic blood pressure? So I'm guessing we'd have to use diastolic and even then I'm not sure it'd give a direct relationship."

"Well, but even if it was an approximate relationship, it'd be pretty useful."