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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[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."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"I brought home some stuff on limb regeneration once. Turning into a vampire can't do that. But things that turning into a vampire can fix are less the focus - Mama approves of public health measures and I've brought vaccines and the like before but I haven't found anything that will do proper immortality besides vampirism and we're already doing that as fast as we can."

[whatamithinking]

"Not that it's relevant anymore, or that your mother would be any more likely to approve for turning other people who are also telepaths, but can turning into a vampire fix paraplegia?"

[her_imperial_radiance]

"As long as everything still exists, yes. It just can't generate body parts out of nothing."

[whatamithinking]

"Huh. Well, not really relevant anymore, but theoretically good to know."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"And the process will dissolve anything that isn't organic body part or glass, which can be inconvenient for some people who've been injured and had that addressed in ways other than turning first."

[whatamithinking]

"I imagine it wouldn't dissolve the wheelchair."

[her_imperial_radiance]

"No, the wheelchair would be fine. But hip replacements come up pretty often..."