A Good Place to Put Your Feet Up

[whatamithinking]

There is a woman at the bar. She's drinking some sort of coffee beverage, and grading papers.

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[whatamithinking]

"...Your world is kind of messed up."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Yes, I know."

[whatamithinking]

"The immortality thing seems decent, though."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Yes. I can't turn you into a vampire from here, though, there's a procedure - if you really want it you can come back to my world and hope you get a door out to go home again, though."

[whatamithinking]

"...I think I'll skip it. I think I caught something about genetic changes...?"

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Yes. Vampires have more chromosomes. The originals remain as-was though."

[whatamithinking]

"Hmm. My telepathy is genetic, and I have it because of genes other than the one that activates it--" '(impression of how the X-Gene works, granting powers according to the information in seemingly useless and unrelated genes)' "--and I really do not even a little want to risk losing it."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"We have a precog, if that's the issue." (Aunt Alice, can't see wolves or hybrids but could see a human and probably an X-Gened one too.) "But I don't mean to be a pushy salesperson, it's just explaining the pros and cons of becoming a vampire is literally my job."

"In addition to 'Princess'," Jake puts in.

[whatamithinking]

"Ooh, a princess."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Well, that's what happens when one's mother usurps the shadow government."

[whatamithinking]

"Nice. My world doesn't have any governments that definitely need usurping at the moment or I'm pretty sure my parents would have done it."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"This one needed it." (The Volturi -)

[whatamithinking]

"...This Chelsea person is already dead, right, it's not feasible to kill her again?"

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Yes. She's dead. Although Mama's general dislike of things that remind her of Chelsea might make her unfavorably disposed if you did apply to be turned, so I definitely can't guarantee results. It doesn't help that you're from another world and would probably wind up outside her jurisdiction eventually."

[whatamithinking]

"I would never do anything like that," she says vehemently.

[her_imperial_radiance]

"I understand. And she has exceptions. My father reads minds less voluntarily than you do; she's careful about making sure no one is in his range without being okay with that, outside of extreme circumstances. But she might decide you'd make a dangerous vampire she'd have no hope of containing if it came to the necessity. You're much stronger and more general and longer-ranged than Chelsea was, and you don't work by witchcraft so Mama's immunity might or might not cover you."

[whatamithinking]

"That's--fair. And I don't want to be a vampire anyway, I'm not planning on asking...I'm curious enough I'm tempted to ask your precog aunt, but I don't think I'd actually go through with it even if your mother had no objections."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"That's reasonable. I don't have an alternative form of immortality to peddle, unfortunately."

[whatamithinking]

"Oh well. There's time yet before it's urgent."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Maybe if you get enough doors you'll find one you like more than mine."

[whatamithinking]

"Hopefully, yes. How often do you get doors, if I wanted to indulge my curiosity with your aunt?"

[her_imperial_radiance]

"Pretty often. I get large quantities of a tasty non-blood substance here for R&D to try to figure out how to make and everybody else to drink."

[whatamithinking]

"Convenient."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"I bring home other things too, but if I overdo it I don't get new doors for longer than usual, so I try to keep it to the essentials - yes golden bubbly and interesting feats of materials engineering, no parts for spaceships that break the speed of light."

[whatamithinking]

"My sister and I usually bring home medical technology a little more advanced than what we've currently got."