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.

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[keyed_up]

"Hey, you know, good for you, most people don't remember they were using those things after they drop 'em."

[cross_and_bow]

Bella starts driving.

[thisvorlunatic]

"I was using mine for some really important functions, it turns out! It's really uncomfortable to suddenly lose the foundation of all your best skills. I don't recommend it at all. Of course, I guess most people aren't building all their best skills directly on top of their soul."

[keyed_up]

"Yeah I dunno how that would even work for me. 'I am a vampire, I have lost my ability to play DDR'?"

[thisvorlunatic]

"Ooh, what's DDR?"

[keyed_up]

"Oh right you're too ray gun to know DDR it probably doesn't age super well in ray gun future land. It's a dance game, there's arrows and they fly up the screen in time to a song and you step on them at the right moment!"

[thisvorlunatic]

"That sounds like fun!" he says. "My favourite game is definitely Plasma Rain. You have a bunch of sources of coloured fluid and a bunch of items that affect the flow and the objective is to get all the fluids streaming into the correct destination points. In three dimensions, as quickly as possible. There's a competitive two-player mode but there is no longer anyone willing to play Plasma Rain against me."

[keyed_up]

"Awww, poor you. I'm good at DDR but I'm not, like, insane-youtube-video good. But we're not allowed to let vampires into the house so I can't show you."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Damn," laughs Miles. "A fully understandable rule, though, from what I hear."

[keyed_up]

"Yeah. Oh also don't go on our porch I dunno if Bella warned you."

[cross_and_bow]

"Motion-activated sunshine lights."

[keyed_up]

"- You okay?"

[cross_and_bow]

"...Weird, uh, thing, tell you later."

[thisvorlunatic]

"I was not informed of the motion-activated sunshine lights," says Miles. "Thanks for the warning. I was not planning to catch fire tonight and it's so nice when things go according to plan."

[cross_and_bow]

"Well, I've never had reason to even tell you where the house is before."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Yeah," he says. "And: clear."

[keyed_up]

"What? Does somebody need defibrillating."

[thisvorlunatic]

"No," he snickers. "God, that brings back some memories."

[keyed_up]

"They still defibrillate people in ray gun future?"

[thisvorlunatic]

"When you need somebody's heart restarted abruptly I guess there aren't that many options!"

[keyed_up]

"S'pose not!"

[thisvorlunatic]

"There's plenty of things that haven't changed. People still eat food and wear shoes and so on."

[keyed_up]

"Gosh, no, not shoes. I thought they'd go the way of the dodo."

(The car pulls up to the house.)

"D'you need a ride somewhere or are you walking because you're creatures of the night and go where you please or what?"

[thisvorlunatic]

"I guess that depends on how Bella feels about driving us back to the butcher's shop. Bella?"

[cross_and_bow]

"I gotcha covered."