I don't know how much help it will be. Not everything is above the surface.
( she can live with the scars, she thinks, even if they look like tallies etched into her skin — a count, for every time a knife came for her throat. it's the rend in her soul, touched by a void of merzost, she worries for most. )
I wouldn't trust them to provide for you, if your hunger gives them an easy strategy for controlling you.
( it's a stomach-curdling thought, sour milk churning in her stomach — but ravkan politics have taught her well. a land where few profit but the rich, watching as its malnourished armies fight for a single crumb of hope. if you want to control someone, you control their resources first. for as powerful as they all are, the vampires are all pawns on a board to be moved, same as the rest of the guests. same as alina. same as grisha. )
[ caroline out here with fluffy bunnies for breakfast. she does think she could feed on people, her control is unparalleled even now and she isn't liable to turn into a ripper like stefan, but she doesn't want to ask that of anyone. ]
The risk is more yours that mine. If you die with my blood still in your system, you could become like me. That why it needs to wait until the game is over.
( the more chilling thought: if caroline's blood mixes with her own, is that not just — mixing oil and water? distinctly incompatible, given what she is. an invasion her body might view as an infection, meant to be sweat out.
that, or she's liable to burst into flames on the spot. )
How do you do with sunlight? Naturally, I mean. Is it "unaffected" or "likely to explode if the curtain is left open"?
I have a ring. A witch spelled it so it protects me from the sun. And she didn't even want to! So it really definitely works.
[ she wouldn't tell alina if she didn't know the house lets her walk in the sun just the same as lestat and the others. (expect lexi, but maybe her ring will work for him. she hopes so.) ]
I'm more worried I'll burn alive because of it, if I become what you are. But now that you mention it, thank you for bringing my attention to another fear.
( if nothing else, she's full of two things: the Horrors (tm) and The Fear (also tm). )
Please don't encourage her. You haven't seen half of the books she brings back from the library.
[ this has never come up in mystic falls before. the vampirism burned away witch's powers and completely obliterated the doppelgänger blood in all the petrovas. presumably it would do the same to alina.
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Vampires can be Healers?
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( she can live with the scars, she thinks, even if they look like tallies etched into her skin — a count, for every time a knife came for her throat. it's the rend in her soul, touched by a void of merzost, she worries for most. )
How does it work?
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I know it sounds gross.
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( to not look ungrateful, she avoids typing out the morbid thought that blips across her mind: i'm getting tired of blood in my mouth lately. )
Wouldn't that hurt you? Giving away your blood sounds like a quick path toward starvation.
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It wouldn't bother me at all, you wouldn't be taking enough blood to hurt me and the house provides blood bags for me.
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( it's a stomach-curdling thought, sour milk churning in her stomach — but ravkan politics have taught her well. a land where few profit but the rich, watching as its malnourished armies fight for a single crumb of hope. if you want to control someone, you control their resources first. for as powerful as they all are, the vampires are all pawns on a board to be moved, same as the rest of the guests. same as alina. same as grisha. )
If you're sure of the risk, we can try it.
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[ caroline out here with fluffy bunnies for breakfast. she does think she could feed on people, her control is unparalleled even now and she isn't liable to turn into a ripper like stefan, but she doesn't want to ask that of anyone. ]
The risk is more yours that mine. If you die with my blood still in your system, you could become like me. That why it needs to wait until the game is over.
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( the more chilling thought: if caroline's blood mixes with her own, is that not just — mixing oil and water? distinctly incompatible, given what she is. an invasion her body might view as an infection, meant to be sweat out.
that, or she's liable to burst into flames on the spot. )
How do you do with sunlight?
Naturally, I mean. Is it "unaffected" or "likely to explode if the curtain is left open"?
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[ she wouldn't tell alina if she didn't know the house lets her walk in the sun just the same as lestat and the others. (expect lexi, but maybe her ring will work for him. she hopes so.) ]
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Is it more or less reassuring if I tell you I'm living sunlight?
( there's no non-awkward way to say "or i'll just die haha, isn't that a funny coincidence" is there. )
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Does Alia know your blood shimmers? She loves Twilight!
[ as if alina doesn't know this already. ]
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( if nothing else, she's full of two things: the Horrors (tm) and The Fear (also tm). )
Please don't encourage her. You haven't seen half of the books she brings back from the library.
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Well
[ huh. ]
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but. ]
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Though hopefully we will never have to figure that out because I'm trying to keep you from dying not accelerate the process!
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( contrary to what's probably popular belief, right now. )
Are there any other symptoms I should be worried about? Boils? Bad breath? Bloodlust? The sudden impulse to brood?
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As long as you don't die, your only symptoms of vampire healing will be perfect health.
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( #feminism. )
Let's hope the third time won't be the charm, in this case. I'll come to you when we're done being toyed with.
( and another thing: )
You can borrow some of Alia's books while we wait. If you read the same sort of thing.
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