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!]

Comments

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.]

Re: Midnight Meal

[abnormalizes]

[One hundred percent boring human who has just seen some shit.]

Oh, yeah. You're a classical 'can't-go-out-in-the-sun' type vampire then? That makes things trickier, but I know there's twenty-four hour emergency clinics...

Re: Midnight Meal

[interviewee]

[Louis frowns at her. Wait, does she know what he is and the 'type'?]

No, I can't go out in the sun. Burns me. [And limits his ability to interact with the city.

More importantly,] Those clinics have blood bags?

Re: Midnight Meal

[abnormalizes]

Yeah, at least some. Gotta be able to do a blood transfusion on short notice if somebody needs it.

I think there's at least one butcher in Nightwake that keeps weird hours, too? Not this late, but past sundown.

Re: Midnight Meal

[interviewee]

[Louis wipes the blood off his chin and catches his breath.]

A butcher? In which segment?

Re: Midnight Meal

[abnormalizes]

Nightwake proper, the central area. It's called... Henry's, I think?

Re: Midnight Meal

[interviewee]

Henry's, Nightwake. [Louis notes out loud.] I'll have to look for it.

[He pauses, looking at Evangeline proper.] How do you know what I am?

Re: Midnight Meal

[abnormalizes]

You're not the first vampire I've met. [Third, maybe.] Nonhumans are kind of my thing.

-In other circumstances, I would've started flirting with you immediately, but interrupting somebody's meal to hit on them is just rude.

[At least she's honest about it.]

Re: Midnight Meal

[interviewee]

I'm-- [Louis press his lips into a thin line as he watches her a moment.]

You're used to my kind. [And are clearly attracted to his kind as well.]

Re: Midnight Meal

[abnormalizes]

Yep! Not a huge deal.

[Sure, she doesn't run into people eating rats every day of her life, but it's not like she's going to judge.]

Re: Midnight Meal

[interviewee]

And you know a few of our weaknesses. [He wishes he had a cigarette in this moment.]

Re: Midnight Meal

[abnormalizes]

The sun thing is pretty well known even to people who don't know vampires actually exist and only know them from fiction, I would say.

Re: Midnight Meal

[interviewee]

[Louis nods slowly.]

Well, I'm full now, so you don't need to worry about me draining you.

Re: Midnight Meal

[abnormalizes]

Oh! Please don't get the wrong idea: I would absolutely fight you if you tried. But I'd rather not have to?

Re: Midnight Meal

[interviewee]

Don't think you'd win if you did fight. [Eyebrow raise.] But you don't have to tonight.

Re: Midnight Meal

[abnormalizes]

Probably not, but I could make it troublesome enough to not be worth trying to drain me. It wouldn't be the first time I've fought a vampire, either.

Re: Midnight Meal

[interviewee]

I usually only drink animals or willing participants. I'd only drain you if I was desperate.

Re: Midnight Meal

[abnormalizes]

Oh, important question, are you the kind of vampire where being drunk from feels good? That affects my response.

Re: Midnight Meal

[interviewee]

[Louis considers the question and if he should answer it.] I've been drugged before by drinking someone with drugs in their system. Almost... had a bad time.

[He walked out into the sun and nearly died.]

Re: Midnight Meal

[abnormalizes]

That sounds pretty bad. I drink alcohol sometimes, and I've had aphrodisiacs at parties, but most of the time I'm pretty clean?

Re: Midnight Meal

[interviewee]

You're advertising yourself as a clean target. Right in front of me.

Re: Midnight Meal

[abnormalizes]

You said you usually drink from willing participants. That implies that there must be some reason for someone to agree.

Also, again, if you tried it without asking my permission first, I can be very annoying.

Re: Midnight Meal

[interviewee]

Usually we-- [There's a catch in Louis's breath.]-- I pay them well.

Re: Midnight Meal

[abnormalizes]

Oh, is that it? That's fine! I like money as much as the next girl.

Re: Midnight Meal

[interviewee]

I didn't come in with any, so it looks like I'll have to do some quests.