And then Matt has finished eating! (Nom.)

And so has Sadde.

And it's dark out.

"Nighttime testing?"

"Yeah, I think so."

"Up first: testing whether I am actually totally un-burning at night or if that was some sort of time-delay thing after I turned, then– echolocation or entering-other-dwellings?"

"Un-burning?"

"I burn in the sun, didn't burn last night, see if it's a 'well I now burn outside all the time, it was just the first eight hours for which I didn't' or if it's actually 'only feel burning pain in the sun'."

"Oh. Well, it'd be really weird if you just burnt outside in general."

"Weird by standards of fictional vampires, yeah."

"Mmhm, that."

Door!

It exists! Then Theo goes outside!

It doesn't burn!

"As expected, I suppose."

"That's good. It'd be annoying if you burnt."

"Thanks, I guess," he says. "So. Echolocation or dwellings thingy."

"Echolocation's easier in the immediate case, maybe you could use it while we walk to my place?"

"Any particular non-obvious things I need to do for you to be satisfied whether I can do it, or just shut my eyes and walk along with you?"

"...I mean we're not looking for my personal satisfaction here."

"– That's not what I meant," he says. "I mean, I'm not thinking of any clear things that would make this be 'cheating' or whatever but I'm trying to clarify what I should do to try to get the sort of information we want, here, and echolocation was mostly your idea."

"Well, you're the one inside your head, if we reach a place you don't know by heart and you tell me can use your hearing to locate yourself I'll believe you."

"Okay," he says. "Should I start now or when we get to the place?"

"Start now, why not."

So he does! And he can move around just fine.

"Are you going by noise?"

"Footsteps echo."

"Yeah, I figured as much, just surprised it was enough, you weren't sure it would be without high pitches."