delta v over delta t when there is no t

[ertia]

In a bar, there is a girl.

She looks like she has saved up all of her decadent and slothful impulses for a solid decade and is indulging them all at once. She is sprawled on a couch with a book she's only half-reading, and an ice cream sundae, and smiiiiiiling.

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[first_and_final]

"Oh, how charming," says Milan.

[ertia]

"What's the procedure?"

[taste_tester]

"I fill up on finest vintage from this kind lady," says the vampire, tapping Bar, "so that I'm in reliable control of my faculties, and then I bite you and the show's on the road."

[first_and_final]

"And control of one's faculties is a potential problem here?"

[taste_tester]

"Well, it varies. I can reliably pull the trick off, I've done it before, but sometimes vampires try to make more vampires and instead make corpses. Blood's tasty stuff."

[first_and_final]

"That sounds inconvenient, but inconvenience can be handled."

[ertia]

"How bad is this going to be if sorcery won't touch it...?"

[taste_tester]

"Can you get blood, wherever you're from?"

[ertia]

"Yeah..."

[taste_tester]

"Then you'll have a learning curve before you want to go downtown and inhale but you're all set to handle it and go about your business."

[first_and_final]

"But we should perhaps test how well sorcery can handle your unquenchable thirst, just to see."

[ertia]

"Yeah, may I?"

[taste_tester]

"Be my guest!"

[ertia]

Kithabel is her guest.

[taste_tester]

"Oh, there it goes, that's very nice. I could probably go kiss a tuberculosis patient on three weeks' hunger and leave them alive."

[first_and_final]

"Well, there's an image. Okay, so sorcery can solve this like so many other problems."

[taste_tester]

"I'm impressed. How do you get it?"

[ertia]

"You hang out in my world for years doing smaller versions of it constantly and in wide variety."

[first_and_final]

"I'm cheating outrageously and I still can't fly yet," Milan contributes.

[ertia]

"You'll get there soon."

[taste_tester]

"Anyway, you up for your three days of incomprehensible agony nowish?" Addy asks Milan.

[first_and_final]

"I might very well be. I'm probably having a reckless moment, but Kithabel is a much less reckless person than I am and she's interested too, so I'm not that worried."

[ertia]

"Well, she's a vampire and she seems to be fine, but let's just double-check everything she said with Bar to be sure."

Bar says Addy has not lied to them as far as she knows.

"Right then."

[first_and_final]

"In that case, sure, I'll take my three days of incomprehensible agony."

[taste_tester]

"Hit me," Addy says to Bar, and then she gets a gallon of blood, which she chugs out of its glass container in four seconds flat. "Where you wanna be?"