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That evening, in the hospital's morgue, Theo finds himself naked on a metal table and much less dead than most people had been led to believe earlier.
In fact, he's feeling quite alive.
Theo becomes a vampire
Who said the moon was setting, what nonsense is this, the moon is fine and still in the sky. It is not moving. Nor talking. Psshh.
in-the-breeze
Not if it's a scale of 'not talking', where 1 would be 'talking' and 'a rock' would be 'not talking'. But sure, on a scale from 1 to human, where 1 is like a rock instead, and human is self-evident, where would it be?
… You know, it'd probably be better if the scale were 0 to 10, with 0 being 'a rock' and like 8 being 'a human', to leave leeway, but whatever.
Point is: is it talking?
in-the-breeze
He tries to brush the sand off himself. Still naked. Ugh.
Why is he in a desert again?
in-the-breeze
Does he still want to run? Because he doesn't really think he does. Ugh.
Okay, maybe a little, but not, like, for hours. And he kinda wants to find some place to– get some clothes, first, since he's naked in a desert.
Ugh.
in-the-breeze
And can he see anything potentially useful to what he wants to do if he looks around? Such as some people he can talk to while awkwardly covering his junk?
Nnno, no people nearby.
But he can spot a highway in the distance—his vision is actually much better than he remembers.
in-the-breeze
… Ugh, no chance to hitchhike then.
Which ways is the town or whatever? If he can see a sign for it, or work it out from other things (like seeing it), or remember where it is, he goes that way.
in-the-breeze
He thinks he'll go back to the town he came from, if it's closer, and see if he can get some clothes and a ride home from there.
in-the-breeze
… How much closer? If he's like slightly over halfway he'd rather go back to the other town and get clothes there so nobody he knows sees him strolling around town naked.
in-the-breeze
Hm.
He's probably– um. He's probably able to get back home without anyone seeing him if he takes a bit of a back route, especially since it's dark, so…
Okay, back to his hometown.
in-the-breeze
Oh.
He'd sort of– forgotten but not forgotten about that.
… Is there any clear reason for him being super fast?
Maybe the same reason why his visual acuity is so ridiculously good. Or his hearing. Or his sense of smell. Or his sense of touch. Or the fact that he's not feeling cold in spite of being naked in the desert at night. Or his memory. His memory's really good. He remembers everything from the previous day: suddenly passing out at school, waking up in a morgue, licking the table, and the walls, and the door, and the corpse, and drinking the corpse's blood, and also that nice doctor's in the hospital's parking garage, and...