"Lil' bit, yeah."

"Right, but I thought we had decided that the subtlety of a single person running around the hospital and how well I've been doing so far and the fact I ate a deer earlier today and am correspondingly not all that hungry had led us to decide I was okay to run about for short periods of time…?"

"Yeah, but, you know. After you scout, should probably bring someone else. For safety."

"… Yyyes, and I thought we were discussing whether me sneaking around the ER to find potential patients counted as part of the scouting? I mean, if you think it shouldn't because I'll be dangerous in the ER – even though I don't think it's much worse than the corridors – then I'm okay with that if we establish it beforehand, but I thought we were debating the safety of me running around the corridors."

"Nah, I don't think we're debating anything."

"Okay, so – ER is safe for me to do alone? Or ER is not safe for me to do alone?"

"– There are probably more people in the ER than the corridors? I mean, some more, and you have curtains and open wounds and I think at least typically vampires find open wounds a lot worse so are you sure they're okay?"

"I mean, I guess larger wounds might be suddenly really bad unlike the small wounds?" Shrug. "But the small wound it was just 'slightly noticeably stronger smell', not 'ravenous desire to bite'. – I guess better to be safe, though, should probably not do the ER alone, but then I'd worry about the rest of the hospital too?"

"We're already clear on you not breathing, right? Maybe you could just use echolocation instead of looking at anything."

"Yes not breathing but I wasn't planning on holding my nose as I run around – probably should, reduce what I could smell even further – and echolocation probably works."

"Yeah sounds good then."

Nod.

Theo's estimate of forty minutes was a bit on the high end, because now that he has vampirism he also has better reflexes and drives slightly better and is happier to get up to the high speeds more quickly and stay nearer them on the slightly-less-straight bits.

It's not all that scary. He's still within the speed limit, he's still taking the bends quite carefully, he's paying attention to the road.

It is, actually, quite fun.

Then they're there! "So I'm holding my breath, holding my nose, using echolocation, and– am I going in the ER or just finding it? Am I looking for the blood bank here too…?"

"Might the ICU not be a better place to go than the ER?"

"– Right, yes, and point still stands: am I going in or am I just locating it and fetching one of you, probably the latter since you wanted to see a rescue anyway…? And blood bank: yay or nay? We might have better luck with this one than the one at the nearer hospital, I dunno."

"Better luck how?"

"Blood might come more frequently? Blood might come in larger quantities? Blood might not be transportable in a single crate each delivery, and consequently might be easier to steal?"

"None of those are things you'll be able to find out by visiting the blood bank."

"Not unless they have a schedule placed somewhere neatly, no, but I'll at least know where the blood bank is and that might be convenient if we decide to come back here?"

"Yeah, but we'll still probably need to stalk the place a while."

"– So I shouldn't go looking for where the blood bank is, even quickly, because we'll need to come back and stalk the place in more depth if we ever plan on using that information?"

"No I didn't say that, it just doesn't matter to it whether we're lucky or not, the stuff we can be lucky about won't be affected by you finding it."

Nod. "Okay, so, locating the blood bank and the ICU then returning to pick one of you up."

"Yup."