"Yeah! But it's—kinda odd? What with this whole vampire Theo thing, and magic, and it's all much less exciting than it could've been."

He nods. "It'll probably be easier to get things done when we don't have things to do for eight hours of the day, though." Pause. "Not that I've been going to school, but still."

"I was planning on just playing video games and reading and going out and stuff all summer."

(So what food is there here?)

(Cookies, chips, bread, various chocolate bars, fruit… There are some leftovers in the fridge from the past couple of nights, too.)

"And now you get to poke at a vampire's various attributes, sounds fun."

(He grabs all of the non-fridge snacks and makes his way back to the other two.)

"Hmm, not as much fun as it'd be being the vampire."

"… Well, to an extent, yeah," responds Matt, then he notices Sadde and – can he grab a cookie?

Naturally.

"The mind control thing is way too creepy. I'd definitely want to be a vampire if it weren't for that, but with that..."

"The traumatic start is, uh, less than ideal, too."

"It's probably not necessary..."

"No, but I mean, I wouldn't want to just trade places with him."

"Oh, yeah, me neither."

"And we don't actually know how to turn someone else into a vampire," he points out.

"Presumably it involves appearing to die at some stage, if Theo's is anything to go by."

"There's mythos about dying with vampire blood in your system, or just drinking a lot of it, or being drained of blood, or venom..."

"Also sharing blood over the course of three days, that's one," says Matt. "The myths are all pretty morbid."

"And make it pretty hard to try."

"Unfortunately, yeah," agrees Matt. "Until and unless we, like, publicize it and get people who volunteer for testing, but that feels kinda horrible."

"Mmhm. But I mean, in the long term... Turning everyone into a vampire sounds like the best idea?"

"Possibly? – I mean, probably."

"Everyone being immortal? The sway thing probably means we'll have to adapt the way we relate with other people, but." Shrug.

– And then Theo is back, like before with only slightly wet hair. "We don't even know I'm immortal yet, but yeah, hopefully."

"Dealing okay with the water?"

"It's really extremely uncomfortable but doesn't seem to be harmful," he shrugs. "I at least don't feel like I'm running out of oxygen."