"We're postulating new magic, anyway. New vampire magic but still."

"Or just that the previous vampire magic doesn't extend as well as we thought and it turns out my memory has a bunch of weird perception flaws in that I haven't noticed yet. Which is possible, so long as I'm enough better than a human that it typically doesn't matter and so long as that doesn't preclude the other memory things we've noticed."

"Right but, Occam's Razor, assuming it doesn't work in the straightforward extension of what we've seen so far is an extra postulate and I'm not sure it's actually more likely than other magic."

"I honestly have no idea how to apply Occam's Razor to some things that I previously thought were… pretty much impossible? Because it's a choice between 'more, similar impossible things occurred' and 'previous impossible thing manifested slightly differently'. Which to me suggests that the previous impossible thing wasn't as we expected, I think, except we have two instances of magic so I have no idea how to adjust for that?"

"Well, impossible or no, there's a substantial difference between the impossibility of 'greatly enhanced senses' and 'senses that look greatly enhanced but actually behave weirdly at different distances,' especially when 'weirdly' is set to a specific hypothesis."

"I was thinking more the memory thing, that it felt like I had a perfect ability to remember how long things lasted for but actually turns out I'm not super amazing at them, or something."

"Well but we did test it, you seemed at least as accurate as we could reasonably have our devices be."

Shrug. "Do you think we should go find her now, tell her, or wait until later sometime?"

"...it would be kinda weird to do it right after she left but uh. I don't actually know of a good reason to wait."

"Slightly weird except for the fact we didn't have it established whether we'd reveal it to her, so she'll probably understand?"

"Mm. I guess."

Out they go, then.

Evelyn isn't too far away. She's on the sidewalk, in a bit of sun (for it is sunny today), a few blocks away.

"Maybe don't stay in the sun?" she tells Theo.

Evelyn pauses to take a phone call!

"Yeah," agrees Theo, then he moves to the shade of a nearby tree. "What are we doing, just shouting to her and asking about the mug?"

"What no we're telling her about vampires first."

"Are we showing her proof, because we're in public so, what do we use as proof?"

"The memory that you woke up in a morgue after dying?"

"… Okay, so we're just relying on the whole 'everything is really unlikely anyway' aspect?"

"Mmhm. And then we show her evidence." Pause. "I'm still slightly unsure we should actually do this but I can't find a very good reason why that would be."

"Possibly because she might have magic and she might be hostile? But she doesn't seem it – though that could be a façade – and it seems uncharitable to assume that – but not necessarily a bad idea to do so – and… I'm not really sure about reasons other than those?"

"Well, why aren't we telling the world at large?"

"Because we expect they won't collectively believe us, because we expect they might attempt to exploit us, because we expect there might be a really bad fear reaction, because we don't know what else is out there, because we're still at the preliminary stage and don't know how well these things can scale? I think?"

"And how do those worries apply to single individuals like her?"

(Okay even in the shade that sun is really annoying.)