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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

"I am really rather certain that there have been movie adaptations, and when I said 'pop culture' I meant, more like recent ones – I thought Dracula was pretty much 'the original'." Pause. "For the record, True Blood was also a novel."

subtle_influence

"I don't think anyone's suggested otherwise."

in-the-breeze

Sigh.

subtle_influence

She walks over to him and pets him.

in-the-breeze

Okay then.

"– We should, uh, do something with that blood," he says, indicating the container.

subtle_influence

"...does anything happen if you drink it?"

in-the-breeze

"I haven't tested it," he says. "Does one of you want to get sway over me first in case it does something weird?"

Recording!

in-the-breeze

Theo lets her know when he's swayed quite a lot!

Then he tries the blood.

It tastes really bad!

in-the-breeze

He stops pretty quickly. "Doesn't taste good."

subtle_influence

"That's it? Disappointing."

in-the-breeze

"Unless something else happens if I continue to drink it while it tastes disgusting, yeah, that seems to be it."

subtle_influence

"...I kinda want to try drinking it. You know, now that I don't have any injuries."

in-the-breeze

"Go ahead," he shrugs.

Quick pause for the 'am I bitey' alarm.

subtle_influence

She takes a few sips! Absolutely nothing interesting happens, at least immediately.

(Annoying alarm.)

in-the-breeze

Thrilling.

She deletes the recording.

subtle_influence

"Were there any more experiments? That aren't just getting more information from stuff we already know about."

in-the-breeze

"Test how my blood reacts to the environment? As in, see if it congeals, see if it needs to be stored in a fridge, that sort of thing?"

subtle_influence

"How long does human blood typically take to congeal?"

in-the-breeze

He looks it up! "'Coagulation typically occurs in about fifteen minutes'," he reports.

subtle_influence

"And how about in cold environments?"

in-the-breeze

"– Plasma doesn't clot for several hours at freezing, and other than that it seems it messes with clotting rates in patients if you lower their skin temperature and also there are lab safety recommendations that you shouldn't store blood when you're doing tests but should send it to somewhere for storage within four hours."

subtle_influence