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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
in-the-breeze
"Apparently doesn't hurt to touch or be near," he says. "Not sure about eating but then I haven't eaten any human food yet, so," he shrugs.
in-the-breeze
"Eating raw garlic? Um. Okay, I guess, should probably clean my teeth at some point anyway."
in-the-breeze
Does it taste particularly nice? Like he might possibly want to try living off human food because he's some kind of non-fictional vampire that can do that instead of eating people or animals, yay?
...no it tastes like garlic. Except without any possible feedback about it being a thing-he-could-eat, maybe.
in-the-breeze
"Saw myself in the mirror earlier," he says. "Can check if you see me too, in case that's different, and I haven't tested pictures yet."
subtle_influence
"Well, if the mirror works I don't see why pictures wouldn't, but we ought to test it later anyway. Uh, what else are vampires weak to?"
in-the-breeze
"Holy water, but that's a religious thing. Running water, maybe, that's an undead thing. Wood in general – could see if that causes me not to heal as quickly or something. Sunlight but we've determined I don't seem to burn up in that… Um, sometimes plants like vervain?"
subtle_influence
"Have you taken a shower yet? Wood's a good idea, but I don't know how to get vervain or other herbs like that... Maybe we should bring you to the grocery store and see if anything makes you flee with dread."
in-the-breeze
"I have taken a shower, yes," he says. "I was covered in sand when I woke up out in the desert because that's where I slept last night. But I mean, running water as in a stream, because I don't know how showers are supposed to interact with the undead. So far it doesn't seem to have done anything."
in-the-breeze
"Yeah. I ran around licking things after I got out of the hospital, I bit five people and need to be really sure I don't do that again, and I then went into the forest and hugged some sand and hallucinated it talking to me."
subtle_influence
"Aww come on, tell me! ...wait it just occurred to me, were you naked all that time."
