"If you wanted to cut your own arm, that'd be.  Yeah."

Cam slices his wrist open for her.

She surely has ever had to deal with at least one thing this awkward in her life before.  Probably.

L . . . ick?

It takes a few seconds for anything to happen, and then,

He has magic!!!  Only a teeeeeeeny bit but there's still a lot of things he could do with it!  He could start growing some fangs, a little, or teleport about four inches in any direction but through the floor, or change his skin tone (especially towards this color), or more generally shift himself into a very different shape for twelvish seconds or much less differently permanently, or become smarter in any of these ways (also permanently or temporarily), or grow fangs, or make blood taste better, or make himself like someone almost-imperceptibly more or less than he presently does or vice versa, or become less clumsy, or grow fangs, or -

"- gosh that's weird." He will do less-clumsy.

There is no perceivable change except that the magic shuts up!

"Does that mean you don't want any more, or . . ."

"It went away when I used it. I may not want to carry a substantial reserve around."

"It gets quieter over time.  There was a big drop when I turned; now it pretty much only pipes up when I think - not about it; at it, I guess - and even then it's pretty subdued."  Is he still bleeding.

No, he stopped right away when she seemed done and his arm is unmarked now. "That's good then. I don't know what kind of pace you can sustain on this."

"On what?"

"On drinking my blood in a magical way? So I don't know over what time scale I would be getting used to it."

"Oh.  I've been doing every five of my days or so.  Different people vary on that I think but I don't really know by how much.  Um, there's a sense for it built in; I can tell whether I'd get more magic at any given moment and about how much - and the same for you now, apparently; huh.  Less fidelity though."

"That didn't turn up in the simulation?"

". . . No."

"...well, that's concerning."

". . . I wasn't aiming it at me?  Uh, not that I can actually do that; I checked - and I didn't run it very long - you might be right to be worried but I don't have a very clear picture of what about?"

"Does the simulation not include - things you do, in it, like reporting to me about how you now have this sense -"

She thinks.

"It definitely does that at least . . . sometimes . . ."

"...is there a pattern to what times?"

She consults her notes.  "Uh, the omnipotence one I came in at the end for but I don't know if I actually did anything - both the ones with opening the door, and the one where I tried to talk to Ancora's parent - there might have been others but those are the ones where it definitely says here that I was in them - "

"Does it systematically drop - magical feedback, or something -"

"Can you give an example."

"The thing it just did where the sim didn't have you noting that you have a magic sense about me now but in real life you do."

"Well, yes.  Uh, none of these ones I was in would have had me actively using any other magical senses I don't think - your worry is very contagious but I still don't know what your actual concern is - "