"So I'm thinking I try to burn myself by holding my hand near the stove, don't actually try to shove my fingers in the flame or anything?"

"Ew."

"– Should I not?"

"It's a bit creepy, but like Sadde said, your body."

Pause.

"Do it if you want; we're not objecting," inputs Matt.

– So he does. Turns on the stove and puts his hand near the flame.

It doesn't feel any worse than it did when he was human. Nor any better.

… He puts it close enough that he'd expect to burn, were he human.

It burns.

He keeps it there.

Is it visible burning, does it look like it's blistering?

Yyyep. It is actually damaging his skin.

(Maybe a bit less and more slowly than it would, were he human.)

– He removes his hand from the flame and doesn't grimace, just watches it to see if it fixes itself or if this is ultimately not a thing he can avoid with his newfound supernatural powers.

(He hasn't actually burnt himself much before, so he doesn't notice the difference.)

It heals pretty quickly, actually.

"So it hurt like fuck and burnt like normal but heals fine."

"Ouch."

"At least you didn't turn to dust?"

"I think your sense of preservation probably got fucked when you turned."

"I mean, I doubt I would have turned to dust instantly? Unless I was somehow extremely flammable in which case– yeah that would have been a bit of a shame."

"I'm pretty sure most people still wouldn't have tried that."

"… I didn't think my sense of self-preservation had been screwed with?" he responds, frowning a little.

"She does have a point, though, you're awfully eager to test these things."

"Yeah, she does have a point, I wasn't disagreeing. I just– hadn't noticed it and am now wondering why it might be the case and if I've changed or I was just weirdly reckless before."

"I don't think you were? On the other hand most of our self-preservation instincts are just that, instincts, and it'd make sense for yours to have changed since you're a different species now?"

"Okay, but– I don't think I had anything against going in the sun until I actually tried it? Admittedly the first time I tried it, it was 'I am literally burying my head in the sand in this desert and what the hell burning pain okay I don't want to move yet but ow okay I'll move', so."