"Both, I'm actually hungry."

"… Do you want cereal, or like, egg, or a sandwich…?"

"Sandwich sounds good."

"Cheese work okay?"

"Sure."

So two cheese sandwiches are made.

And Theo hands one to Sadde and then tries the other.

His body doesn't, like, reject the cheese sandwich or anything. It doesn't really taste like much of anything, though, and doesn't feel filling. Not that blood does, come to think of it, but.

Sadde, meanwhile, enjoys his sandwich and watches Theo's reactions.

"It tastes like a sandwich, in the ways that a sandwich does technically taste, with its contents, but isn't really appetizing." He shrugs. "I'm not sure if that just means it'll work like the smells-like-soy-protein animals or if it's just ugh."

"Hmm. I'm not sure how to test whether it works."

"I would suggest me waiting until I have a vague desire to snack on someone and then seeing if eating human food works, with some blood at the ready, but I feel like this might not be the best solution."

"It actually doesn't sound bad, though, conditional on being able to get our hands on some blood. Maybe you could steal some?"

"From a hospital or something? Um, yeah, if I'm safe to go running around a hospital, which I'm really not assured of?"

"At night, when there's few people around, with me?"

"Except, like, all the inpatients? But yeah."

"You can smell through walls? ...of course you can, what a dumb question."

He bites his lip a bit and shrugs.

"Is it at least weaker? You don't seem to be jumping out the window right now."

"I'm a bit weaker from the sunlight right now anyway, and I'm not that hungry, but yeah, it's weaker with distance and when there isn't like, a breeze blowing it in my face?"

"Right. Well, guess it shouldn't be an insoluble problem, then."

"Yeah, hopefully not. I'm not sure if hearing makes me want to eat people too, or if it's only smell or what."

"Mmm. Okay, anyway, you seem to have eidetic memory, let's test the other senses and capabilities."

"I mean, not sure it's eidetic so much as perfect recall of things I actually took note of, but it's kinda difficult to tell the difference, I think?"

He looks at Sadde again and tilts his head.

"You keep giving me these looks," he says in lieu of responding.

"I–" he starts, then frowns a bit. "Yeah."

"Hmm?"