"Yeah," he agrees.

"Weird."

"What is?"

"That he can't do it. Especially since he's a vampire, I'd sort of expect that to make it easier. Sort of."

"Well, I'm actually surprised you can, I hadn't ever met anyone else who could label their emotions easily like I do."

"I don't always label my emotions that easily, and sometimes not in easy words, but I know what they are."

"I knew there was a reason I liked you."

He raises an eyebrow.

"Yeah, no, I don't know what I'm feeling half the time."

He grins at Matt then raises an eyebrow at Theo. "That sounds difficult."

"It's not too bad if I can work around it no matter what I'm feeling because it'd be stupid to let the emotions get in the way."

"Well but emotions don't just get in the way, they're useful and informative."

"Right, but then I don't need to work around them, and they're not getting in the way? I work around them mostly as necessary, I think. Sure, I miss whatever informational content you get from knowing precisely what they are but I don't think I can easily fix that."

"I'd want to figure out how to fix that, in your place."

"Perhaps I will see if being a vampire has given me an easy toggle to label all my emotions, or if I can work out what classes of emotion they approximately fit into, in that case. But I don't consider it that important, really, possibly because I haven't notice an extremely grave lack and haven't known what it's like to know."

"If you say so. I like knowing myself and my brain."

"Don't think I know mine all that well but emotions are pretty okay."

"I mean, in general, I like knowing what's going on in my head. I don't always put it to words but I always can, it's comforting."

Shrug.

"Would be nice," says Theo. "Don't think I can do it that often, though."

"You confessed you haven't tried," he points out, "so I hardly think you can declare inability like that."

Pause. "Not even prefaced by 'don't think'?"

"Well, I guess not having ever tried is some evidence of being unable to do it..."

He shrugs. "I can sometimes put it into words, so it's not like I've never tried it, but, like I say, not always clear what I'm thinking. So, like, I've never tried always doing or always being able to do it, but I have tried sometimes doing it?"

"Mmm. Alright, I guess."