i never read the signs, driving with no lights

[interviewee]

WHO: Louis de Pointe du Lac and you!
WHAT: Louis's arrival
WHEN: Today, everything happens at night.
WHERE: Sunwaning, Solarpeak, and Dayrise segments
WARNINGS: Possible mentions of violence, etc.

[Multiple prompts below. Let me know if you'd like another!]

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Searching for A Coffin

[interviewee]

[To his alarm, Louis woke up in a bed--- A bed--- with light streaming through the windows. Stripes of bright light burning up the side of the sheets on his bed. He tries to sleep through the pull of the sun, but the threat of it peeling away skin has Louis keeping close to the inside wall.

Only after the sun dims over the horizon does Louis leave his apartment. He desperately needs a coffin and he can't go another dawn cycle without it. He needs to find a 24/7 place that sells coffins. He doubts he'll find one, but that doesn't stop him from trying.

He's looking through the store directory when he turns and accidentally bumps into someone.]

Sorry, I was absorbed in what I was doing.

Re: Searching for A Coffin

[medicinalfrost]

[Do vampires feel the cold? idk, I'm not that canon familiar. Either way, the temperature around Albinia is lower than anywhere else.]

[But she is being bumped into, looking away from her observation of the sky and how the light pollution affects the view.]

Most don't wander at night so distracted.

Re: Searching for A Coffin

[interviewee]

[Louis can feel a cold aura, but he's resistant to it. He blinks and presses his lips into a thin line.]

Didn't sleep well.

Re: Searching for A Coffin

[medicinalfrost]

[There is a slight tilt of her head.]

Which seems an even poorer reason to wander at night.

Re: Searching for A Coffin

[interviewee]

[Louis turns back toward the directory, finger sliding along the glass.]

Some of us are night owls.

[gentledawn]

[The contact startles him and Xingchen looks up briefly before giving the stranger a low bow, his hands cupped politely before him.]

Forgive me, I fear I was in much the same state! [And since he doesn't recognize Louis, he smiles encouragingly.] Are you new? I might be of some assistance. I have been in Ellipsa for a year and six months.

[interviewee]

[Louis gives a shorter bow in return to Xingchen, trying to mirror how Xingchen cups his hands. He's about to give a rude and if I am new when Xingchen offers assistance.]

Having a hard time getting what I need.

[gentledawn]

[As he straightens, he gets a better look at the other man. There is something...different...about him. But Xingchen can't put his finger on it.]

What do you need exactly?

[interviewee]

A few different things that normal folk don't. Newspapers, food... [And as for the coffin.] and my sister died coming in. Need a coffin for her.

Midnight Meal

[interviewee]

[Louis has gone without eating for almost twenty-four hours and the dizziness and yearning for some blood. Based on a map he saw, there are wilderness areas that may allow him to drink from animals. So he makes his way through Sunwaning to the bridge and immediately he finds rodents similar to those back home.

He drinks one after another until he hears footsteps behind him mid-meal.

He pulls his lips free of the creature and blood drains down his chin.]

This isn't what it looks like.

Re: Midnight Meal

[abnormalizes]

[Evangeline looks at Louis. Looks at the rats, looks at the blood on Louis' face.]



Sorry for interrupting your meal. Please don't mind me.

Re: Midnight Meal

[interviewee]

[Louis tosses the rat to the side and shakes his head.]

This isn't what it looks like.

[But what does it look like; he tries to put up an excuse that won't require him to drain and kill the newcomer.]

These were sick.

Re: Midnight Meal

[abnormalizes]

Okay, but if it was what it looked like, that would be fine? Like I'd recommend using Ellipsa's blood banks over eating rats but that's like, personal preference I guess?

[She's having an impressive non-reaction to seeing someone draining blood from rats in the middle of the night. In truth, she normally would be more excited to meet a vampire, but she knows being interrupted in the middle of eating for someone to be hype at you is annoying at best.]

Re: Midnight Meal

[interviewee]

[Louis pauses and frowns at her.]

They're closed right now. [He checks his watch and it is just a hair past midnight.] Don't really have a choice.

[He's not sure how she's so calm in the face of the rats and blood. Perhaps she's a vampire as well, but he can't hear her in his mind if she is talking to him.]

[jiangzaid]

[ Xue Yang pauses when he encounters the strange man clearly drinking from a little creature. Tilting his head at the denial, he folds his arms across his chest with a faint smirk and raises a brow. ]

Oh? Then what exactly is it? I'm not the kinda guy to judge what others eat.

[interviewee]

[Louis raises his head from the rat, blood dripping down his fangs as he tries to force them to withdraw. He stares down the newcomer before tossing the dead rat to the side so he can wipe his chin.]

Then maybe it is what it looks like.

[jiangzaid]

[ The sight of blood doesn't seem to bother him. At all. Why should it? His hands have been steeped in blood most of his life!

But the fangs rather interest him. So maybe he stares a bit - he's not sorry. He laughs at the shift and grins. ]

Do you need more? I can help you hunt.

[ He thinks Xingchen and Runyu might approve, after all, he's being helpful! ]

[interviewee]

[Louis wipes his chin again as his fangs withdraw.]

I could use a few more bites.

[However, he pauses and asks] Who are you?

Pending Sunrise

[interviewee]

[Without a coffin in hand, Louis has to hurry through the last couple hours of being awake. He's trying to buy a newspaper from a vendor who just ditched their supply of the day before. Louis sighs,] I just need magazine, a newspaper, something.

[And the pressure of the rising sun makes him more and more irritable.]

Re: Pending Sunrise

[livesoutofspite]

[A man is passing by when Louis is having trouble with the newspaper vendor. He can't help but overhear the man and the irritation in his voice. He walks toward the two, lighting a cigarette and taking a drag as he approaches.]

Guess he's fresh out, huh? Maybe I can help. You looking for some reading material or something else?

[Mike raises an eyebrow slightly as he asks.]

Re: Pending Sunrise

[interviewee]

[Louis turns to the newcomer, hands on his hips and clearly irritated.]

I like reading up on past events.

[It’s an easy lie.]

Re: Pending Sunrise

[livesoutofspite]

If that's what you're looking for, the library has a lot of books on history.

[knowsvinewhip]

Excuse me.

[Why is Hakkai out so late? Or early? Who knows. He's not telling. Don't worry about it. Regardless, he was totally not listening as he passed by.]

[He's just kind of there. Politely, firmly, smiling at the vendor.]

Surely you can find some form of reading material for the gentleman? [That smile would make the local HOA Chairman quake. And the vendor ducks into "the back".] Ah. Perhaps that was a bit much...

[interviewee]

[Louis glances over from where he's trying to negotiate with the vendor. He appreciates the help, but as the vendor disappears, Louis sighs, hands still on his hip.]

Thanks.

html WHY

[knowsvinewhip]

I'm sorry. I hadn't thought he'd be so skittish...

[But he does feel bad. And sighs himself, before turning slightly.] Well, since this appears to be my fault. Here -

[That's. A book. A novel about the thickness of an encyclopedia. Some kind of historical fiction.]

I finished this last night and was on my way to return it to the library. I hope it helps?