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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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"So the blood works in the fridge, at least for a day?"

in-the-breeze

"It… might be a good idea to see how long it lasts, if we can. As in, how long the blood still keeps you healing."

subtle_influence

"Mmhmmm..."

Matt laughs.

in-the-breeze

"Should we maybe wait five minutes before we test it again?"

subtle_influence

"—probably a good idea, I did not bring a change of underwear."

Matt continues laughing.

in-the-breeze

Theo opts not to say anything.

Willow Maxwell

"Are you guys done there?" Willow calls from the living room.

in-the-breeze

"Temporarily!"

"Tell me when you're done permanently! And if it'll take forever I'll just go home."

in-the-breeze

"We're not sure how long it'll take, we're testing the properties of my blood!"

Willow Maxwell

"Ugh," she says in a normal volume.

in-the-breeze

"You can watch the TV if you want!"

Willow Maxwell

The sounds of the TV can be faintly heard a few seconds after that.

in-the-breeze

"And the intervening time, what should we do?" He looks at Sadde. "Or are you, uh. Too busy."

subtle_influence

"I am not currently incapable of doing things."

Matt can stifle his giggles. That's a thing he'll do.

in-the-breeze

"If you say so," allows Theo. "I haven't tested my brain all that much yet – we did memory tests."

subtle_influence

"I don't know what's so funny, you've seen my 'o' face before," he snarks at Matt, then looks at Theo. "Got anything in mind?"

That really doesn't help Matt to stop laughing.

in-the-breeze

"I'd suggest an IQ test but I'd basically be cheating with the time constraints, and I haven't done much mental math – never really liked it all that much, still kinda weird to do it – but that's presumably upgraded similarly, and, uh, things like working out where a projectile will hit, throwing balls and stuff, I was good at that as a human and that's presumably also been upgraded but I'm not coming up with any sudden tests for higher precision than 'yeah it's pretty good'."

subtle_influence

"And higher precision tests are pretty boring."

in-the-breeze

Shrug. "I mean, yeah, but– we could go to some big field, have me throw a baseball quite a ways, then run to stand where I expect it to land? Might be kinda boring, but it could give an idea of how much it's improved, since I assume it has."

subtle_influence