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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
subtle_influence
"It might, if it turns out that, I don't know, your teeth are less sharp in the sun, or you're weaker, or whatever, someone needing to run from you could just go outside."
in-the-breeze
"Yeah, I agree, I'm not discounting it as, like, a way to hopefully reduce my ability to do damage, I'm up for doing it, I was just– yeah, nevermind."
subtle_influence
"For that matter, after we've determined what if any weaknesses you do have, we should figure out exactly how fast you heal, how strong you are, how sharp your teeth are—unless you have fangs? I didn't notice any—et cetera, to see just how unstoppable you are."
in-the-breeze
"I don't have fangs, no, not that I've noticed, and yeah, that's a good idea, but um, is it so you know what weapon you'd need against me if I do go rogue or, um, what?"
Theo is still looking at Sadde's face quite intently.
subtle_influence
Sadde doesn't seem to make much of this fact.
"Yes, something like that. Also maybe there's something you could do on your end to notice that people are, in fact, people, and should not be eaten. I should maybe get a stake just in case..."
in-the-breeze
"It might be better to carry a knife or something if you can do it without getting caught, I don't know how illegal it is, but since wood didn't seem to do much? But then nor did the knife. I'm not sure what to do from my end because usually I don't have to try to force myself to remember people are people because they just are but I'll try… repeating it as a mantra, maybe?"
subtle_influence
"If that'll help. I'm not sure how to best test this, but—let's do the sun thing first."
subtle_influence
"Hmmm sure, but then we'd need something that naturally takes longer than a nick on your pinky, I think."
in-the-breeze
"Yeah," he agrees, "but it's not like it'd be hard to arrange that, other than being painful?"
in-the-breeze
"… Not really sure. Could just be a larger cut but that might heal too quickly anyway."
subtle_influence
"Well, we could try to time it as precisely as we can, anyway, if there's a change and it's not detectable then it might as well not be there."
in-the-breeze
"Yeah," he agrees. "Uh, time the bigger cut now, you mean? And if the change isn't detectable then pick another method?"
subtle_influence
"I'm thinking more that if the change isn't detectable then the kind of damage we'd have to generate for it to be detectable would be too great for someone trying to not be eaten."
in-the-breeze
"… Uh, so if this change isn't detectable then I'm too overpowered for the sun to matter? Or what?"
subtle_influence
"For the sun to matter when it comes to regeneration, maybe you become weaker or slower or—do you have super senses, too?"
in-the-breeze
"Yeah. They got worse in the sun, it definitely does stuff other than just pain, but it doesn't actually seem permanent."
in-the-breeze
"At the time we were hunting for squirrels," he says. "Then after that I didn't think to mention it, sorry."
subtle_influence
"We should figure out just how bad, exactly, then, since that's one heck of a possible advantage for someone not wanting to be eaten." Pause. "I'm being maybe a bit mean. Sorry. I know you don't mean to be like that. It's just really important that we do our utmost so it won't happen again."
in-the-breeze
"No, I know, it's definitely important. That's why I was trying to focus on it instead of just, I don't know, checking out the new vampire shininess and then sitting in a corner and crying. Or something."
subtle_influence
"Yeah. Um. Sitting in a corner and crying would be very unproductive and I'm glad you didn't do that," he says, and pats Theo's shoulder a bit.
in-the-breeze
Small slightly lopsided smile.
"… So, sun?" he asks, not looking particularly thrilled.