He shakes his head and watches.

So he hands the cup to Matt, leaves the knife on the table, and asks, "So how's school been?"

"Do I drink this before or after…?" he asks, indicating the blood. "And uh–" he shrugs. "You just died, so."

"Probably after, then you can test it again by cutting yourself again, if you're up for that."

"Right," he says, and takes the knife and… wipes it off with a cloth from the sink, then hesitatingly also cuts his palm.

Then he drinks some of the blood.

It knits closed quite neatly!

And so he takes the knife and cuts his palm again.

(Ow.)

It gets healed again.

"Should I… keep testing, see if it stops after a bit, or…?"

Theo shrugs. "Maybe Sadde should test it to see if he heals up, since he did it a while ago? Then we can get an upper bound."

Sadde tests it!

...and after long enough without healing he drinks some more blood to fix it again.

"Okay, so that's like three hours for an upper bound, means we can't just give it to everyone once and have them heal up, but oh well."

"So, how bad's the sun? I think you suggested it doesn't kill you outright, at least?"

"Yeah, just feels sort of like my skin's gonna peel off after a while. Bad sunburn the rest of the time, makes me get bitey."

"Bitey?" He raises an eyebrow. "What, hungry?"

"Yeah, sure," he says. "Hungry. Basically I forget people are people more easily, which is kinda the whole issue here, I think."

"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."