"… I mean, this all sounds vaguely ridiculous anyway but so would the whole idea of me being a vampire, so maybe we should test me using your phone and then also using one of mine?"

"Sure," he says, handing Theo the phone. "Shouldn't Matt take a picture of you or something, too, then?"

"Now or after I take a photo of him? … Actually, it might be reversible stealing if it's based on whether you still have the photo, so does it change if you delete the photo of me?" Pause. He shakes his head. "I feel so ridiculous. Next up: seeing if me mentioning that I have rosemary gives you power over me, since that's a thing I did near the time too."

"Do that? Maybe if Matt asks you about rosemary."

"Do you have rosemary?"

"I do! I do in fact have rosemary, but actually the lines were 'and if you have any interesting herbs now's the time to tell me', and– yeah, repeat that?"

Matt repeats it!

"I mean, I have rosemary which is sometimes used for stuff like that but other than that… no, don't think so?" he says, in a tone that is probably creepily similar to the one he used before. "Feel any different?"

He pauses, examines Theo's face a bit again, then declares, "Nope!"

Sadde giggles. "Okay, phone now, I guess. Was there anything else we'd tried? We were talking about your fangs or their lack, too, weren't we?"

"That was after, when I was staring at you weirdly, but yeah – you frowned at your phone, I turned to look at you, I frowned, we spoke about neutralizing me, I said sunlight might not work too well, you said it might and we should work out other weaknesses and do I have fangs. I can repeat it verbatim if you want, or write it down."

"Yeah, maybe, have Matt play it out in full."

So he writes it down and says the appropriate parts!

Matt says his parts! And then at the end of it… "I still don't feel different."

"Me neither."

"Picture, then?"

"Sure."

So Matt takes a photo of Theo!

"… Huh," he says, looking between the phone and Theo.

"Um," says Theo. "Do you mind if I go fetch my phone real quick or alternatively can you delete that now–?" he asks in a bit of a rush.

"...what, really? Fuck." He immediately finds and deletes the picture.

And then looks at Theo. "Um. Okay yeah now that I'm paying attention I get what you mean."

Matt says, "Just a minute, checking something," and puts his phone down, seeming to be thinking.

"Uh, I– will try not to say anything that would cause you to do anything," he says, trying to be reassuring to Sadde.

"It's alright, I'm pretty sure I can deal—wow it's really insidious isn't it, why do I have this on my brain, why do you do this thing by default and why do pictures do what they do."

"I don't know! And it's horrible, I know – if you'd prefer, though, you can take a photo of me again? I think I'm probably more used to the effects by now?"

Matt picks up his phone again and delete the picture, blinking at Theo a bit as he does so.