yeah that happens if you turn into a vampire

[cross_and_bow]

(prologue)

Bella slips into the school by a side door; she just saw a thing and she thinks she's seen it in a book before and thinks it's supposed to be mostly harmless but before she wakes Giles up over probably nothing or kills a likely neutral demon she wants to check.

And she pushes into the library.

Comments

[cross_and_bow]

"Well, do you remember it having ceased to be Tuesday any more recently than last week."

[unmarred]

"I have not learned the day of the week at any point since arriving on this planet."

[cross_and_bow]

"Oh. Oh well."

[unmarred]

"I'm not sure we'll need him, mind you. But if we do, he will show up."

[cross_and_bow]

"I mean, if there's nobody out there waiting for us to emerge I'm not sure why we shouldn't just wait until I can move normally, exit, optionally cooperate on finding whose idea for a reality show 'dump people in a terrible house' was, and move on with our lives."

[unmarred]

"There could be someone out there waiting for us to emerge who is inaudible and either invisible or outside my limited line of sight. Or they could have set up primitive monitoring equipment."

[cross_and_bow]

"Possible."

[unmarred]

"Insufficient information."

[cross_and_bow]

"Yeah." She stretches her legs out, leans left, leans right. Rubs her neck. Doesn't help with the headache.

[unmarred]

"Are you in pain?"

[cross_and_bow]

"Head's killing me. Other than that just wobbly."

[unmarred]

"I have no solution to offer."

[cross_and_bow]

"Didn't think you did. It should clear up eventually."

[unmarred]

He nods.



He tilts his head slightly and adopts a listening expression.

[cross_and_bow]

"What?"

[unmarred]

"Miles," he says; and then louder, "What took you so long?"

[thisvorlunatic]

Approaching footsteps. The sound of someone trying the door, discovering it locked, and opening it anyway.

"Mark? What the fuck are you doing here?"

[unmarred]

Freezing in horror, apparently. That is what he is doing.

[cross_and_bow]

"Hi, Miles. You didn't say you had a twin."

[thisvorlunatic]

"He's an embarrassment on a number of levels and I've only known about him for a few months - Mark, what's wrong?"

[unmarred]

"You!"

[thisvorlunatic]

"Oh," says Miles. "That. Yeah."

[cross_and_bow]

"Him, what?"

[thisvorlunatic]

"My soul. Mark has detected the loss of my soul and accurately guessed how upset I am about it and now he's equally upset but worse at hiding it."

[cross_and_bow]

"Oh. Well, you're going on a field trip sometime, right?"