"Yeah, but apparently half-demon magic is diluted, too? So I expect looking more human makes you less magic. Of course, given this person's speciesism, it might just be that there are plenty of part-demon magical people. Maybe I'm one. I don't actually know, I don't really—well, I can't say I don't feel human because if I'm not human I wouldn't really know what feeling human's like to compare, but."

"I guess. I don't feel any different after finding out about my potential grace magic," Theo says, rolling his eyes, "but I don't suppose I would, if I always had it. I think I feel pretty human, though, but that doesn't really mean anything."

He gets to looking at the inside of the red, vampire book. Are there any pictures or illustrations, or is it all horribly illegible handwritten stuff?

It's handwritten, but it's pretty legible!

...if you can read Latin, that is.

"I guess I should have expected it to all be in Latin. I don't know what any of this means. I could guess with what I know about French and English, but ugh." He sighs.

"Oh, right, yeah. There's a dictionary here somewhere, I think, but it's not as good as being able to read it. Um, after our date you could come over and we could spend a romantic evening poring over the ancient tomes of forbidden lore and I help you translate stuff," he says.

"Yeah, we actually could do that," Theo says. "We still need to, um, decide what to do," he continues, again blushing a bit.

"Dinner? Movie? Bowling? Walk in the park, well outfitted with stakes, crucifixes, and holy water? Bronze?"

"I think the stakes, crucifixes and holy water are pretty much a given by this point. I don't know – maybe bowling or the park?"

"Then let's go and enjoy our last few hours of sun. We'll drop these books at my place on the way." And Sadde reaches for Theo's hand to pull him off the chair.

Theo lets himself be pulled up, maaaybe leaning towards Sadde a bit as he does so.

Is that so.

Sadde grabs the books, which unfortunately means he has to let go of Theo's hand, and presents them to the librarian, who barely bats an eye to the choices, and checks them out. Into Sadde's bag they go.

That is so.

He definitely does not frown at the letting go of his hand. Unnngh. What is wrong with him?

He's probably suffering from a terrible condition called being a teenager. That's alright, though, once the books are in Sadde's bag his hand is once more free for holding, so that's what he does.

Out they go!

Ugh! When will it end!

The teenager-ism, that is. Not the hand holding. That must continue.

So it does continue! They hold hands until they reach Sadde's apartment, which is fairly nice if not terribly large from what Theo can see from the door. Unless Theo wants a more thorough look, Sadde will just throw his bag inside and close the door.

Hand-holding!

Theo's not particularly curious about the apartment. He's too busy grinning adorably.

...awwwww!

"Is it too early in the date for me to kiss you?"

"It. Um," Theo says, trying to get out a coherent response but failing to generate one.

"Uhhhm. It is nnnot, but um. Uh. I might get distracted from... things."

"...things?" he repeats. "Well, alright, then, no kissing," he says, and starts leading Theo out of his building.

"Things, like, uh. Walking in a park. And things."

Yeah, apparently Theo's imagination is pretty vivid and engrossing. He's not paying too much attention to where he's walking.

He falls over, dragging Sadde down with him, and scrapes his knee on the ground. "Ah, fuck."

Dooown he goes, almost on top of Theo. "Are you that eager to have me on top of you? We could double back," he says, laughing, then starts standing up. "Are you alright?"

"Ugh, yeah, I'm fine," he says, getting up, then he looks at his knee. It's bleeding quite a bit. He hisses a little.

Sadde jumps a bit at the hissing. That was... okay, uh. "That looks bad, are you sure you don't wanna double back? Maybe get this washed or something."

"Uh, yeah, it's probably not great to walk around with blood on my knee."

Theo starts walking back to the apartment.

And then they're back, Sadde kicks his bag out of the way so they can go in. He has a spacious-ish living room, a kitchen over there, what appear to be two bedrooms, and a bathroom at the end of the hall, towards which they go.