"Right, didn't actually ask this earlier – forget people are people?"

"Like, when I told you to jump you just sorta did it? Well when I notice people smelling like food, my first instinct is to go bite them on the neck."

"Ouch."

"Mmh," agrees Theo.

"And you get high on it?"

"Probably!" he says. "Seemed like I was getting high when I ate a deer and also I was acting really stupid when I first woke up."

"… Stupid? Do I want to know?"

"I was licking walls. Yum. Also a car?"

"Nice," says Matt. "Sounds like fun."

"Not really," says Theo, smirking a bit.

Conversation continues in this vein for a bit. Matt gets a nice recap of the various experiments they did.

They seem thrilling.

He continues to look at Theo kinda weirdly.

And after a bit more than half an hour:

"It still looks like Matt's the one in magical love, here."

Matt shrugs. "Seems so. Other ideas?"

"Unless it was a trigger word… I mean, I'd guess either one of the herbs did it, somehow talking about vampiric features that I don't have – fangs was the topic at the time – or maybe something to do with the camera?" He shrugs.

Sadde snorts. "Yeah, I actually captured your soul with my phone, see, that's why."

He snorts. "Maybe it only works once per medium, so someone should try recording and then doing a portrait of me."

"I mean, I'm up for that if you want to test it?"

"D'you expect to have various different souls or something? A camera-soul and a portrait-soul and a recording-soul?"

"I don't expect to have a soul at all, actually, but I mean, Matt can try taking a photo of you instead and seeing if that captures my camera-soul from you." Snort.

"Sure, I guess," he shrugs. "Want me to be naked?" he asks Matt. "I bet nudes capture more of my soul."

He giggles. "Can if you want but maybe we should just try as is for now?"

"Spoilsport. Sure, go ahead."

So he gets out his phone and snaps a pic of Sadde! To Theo: "Feel any different?"

He looks at Sadde, then says, "Nope." Shrug. "Still want to look at his pretty face in a way that slightly lessens when I squint at it, pretty sure that's like it was before."

"And I don't feel particularly in love with you, either," says Sadde. Then gets his phone and takes a picture of Matt. "Feel any different?"