Oh look is that the sun.

It is! It is the sun. Well, a bit of it, over the horizon.

...it is much more unpleasant on his naked skin than he remembered, too.

How much more unpleasant. He'd just love to know.

It. Um. Kinda burns a bit.

How much is a bit.

Does it feel like he's actually on fucking fire or is it just a light stinging. Because if it's a light stinging, he's staying exactly where he is.

It starts out as a light stinging. But, you know, sun, it, like, rises. And it gets progressively more painful as it does that.

He waits until it's quite a bit past light stinging.

He won't have to wait too long for that.

Then he waits another couple of minutes and then he unburies his head and looks around for somewhere to take cover from the stupid burning sun.

It's a desert.

He can run quickly.

Then he can find a town quickly!

By then he will have noticed that aaaaaahhhhh buuuuurns but that doesn't seem to actually be damaging his body. Except his senses are noticeably dulling.

… How much are they dulling.

At the current dulling rate they should be about half their old acuity in about fifty minutes or so.

Well then it doesn't matter much, does it?

He goes to the town.

He can run fast enough that it doesn't take him even five minutes to get there.

And it's dawn and no one is out yet but he is still very naked and covered in sand.

Also the sun burns.

Yes, he gathered that, and he doesn't like the fact that he's covered in sand or naked, so he's going to run home and try to get into his house before he considers anyone biteable and take a shower and get some clothes and try to figure out what the fuck he does next.

He is... faster than cars. At least cars walking in a town. He reaches his place without problems, and it's exactly as he left it.

Okay wonderful and he grabs the key from under the mat and opens the door because he doesn't want to go destroying property and he'll go into the house, shut the door, make sure all the windows and doors are closed and then he'll go shower and panic a little.

Apparently overnight the world decided it didn't want to talk to him anymore. Or hug him. Or behave in any way as if he were very high, which might be becoming a good explanation for what was going on after he woke up.

He doesn't want the world to hug him. Or maybe he does. But it's not going to and he can deal with this because he doesn't want to be high and he doesn't want to bite people and what the hell.

… Oh, right, burns in the sunlight, drinks people's blood, has super senses and stuff. He's a vampire. Of course he is.

Maybe! And there's a very conspicuous hole in his memory between the previous morning when he apparently blacked out and waking up naked in a hospital.

In a hospital's morgue.

Yeah. Well.

People possibly think he's dead in that case. He wonders if his mom knows. Probably.

Perhaps he should– call someone and let them know that he's not dead. Except that might be a terrible idea if they plan on visiting him since he seems so– likely to rip out their throat or some such.

He showers anyway. It's not that much effort to get sand off his body.

He is presently rid of sand and, you know, whatever else he picked while he was running around naked eating people. Probably a fleck of blood or two.

Or a bit more than that, yeah.

Theo then goes and grabs some clothes and thinks back on what the hell happened to him. Or what the hell he did.

He doesn't know if he can be held responsible for what he did, because he was really out of it, and he didn't intentionally get into that state – he doesn't know how he got into that state in the first place – but he feels like that's way too easy to just say from his own position, seeing as he's the one he's trying to absolve of guilt.

And all those people– he just attacked them all, focusing on their fucking smell?

Eugh. He just– he doesn't know what to do or what to have happen because if he's a vampire, that hardly seems controllable as a bloodlust, and really he probably shouldn't be in his house because he's in town and there are people around and he doesn't know if it'll be triggered by him just hearing them or even if it was just bloodlust or just a one-off thing or what.

Ooh a smell.