there's only so much I can turn into

[mswoods]

The thirteen-year-old girl is coming back home from school, on foot.

There's a cat following her. It's been following her for a while, but from a distance.

She decides to be friendly. She stops and turns around to look at it. It stops as well. "Mow?"

The girl's face- changes. It's still a human face, mostly, but now there's something different about it. More feline than anything. Whiskers grow, her pupils dilate and her eyes get a bit rounder, her bones move under her skin, their shape changing a bit. "Mew," she says, vocal apparatus having changed a bit, apparently.

The cat blinks and approaches cautiously. "Moow...?"

She doesn't giggle, but she feels like giggling. She's talking to a kitty! Well, kinda talking to a kitty, it's not like she can understand kitty-speech. But still! "Maw!"

Comments

[mrprop]

It has been two days and something looks really wrong. Sadde does not look like he's two days along his transformation. He looks like it's only been a day.

[taste_tester]

"Are you fucking with your cosmetic features or are you just fighting the venom so hard that it's actually slowing down the whole process?"

[mrprop]

"Make it STOP make it go AWAY I don't WANT IT-"

Incoherent screaming.

[taste_tester]

"Sadde, if you haven't made it stop yet you're not going to. You're making it take longer."

[mrprop]

"I'm UNDOING, it's WORKING, I can SEE IT WORKING, if I'm fast enough-"

More incoherent screaming.

[taste_tester]

"You're not going to be fast enough. Speed it up instead, get it over with."

[mrprop]

He doesn't have anything to say to that. He just screams more.

He never begs for death. It doesn't occur to him that she'll have to kill him if he does in fact manage to revert it, though, so he does beg for that.

[taste_tester]

Addy continues waiting to see what sort of progress either way he'll make.

[mrsparkle]

His transformation lasts four days, three hours, seventeen minutes and nine seconds.

He doesn't fight it tooth and nail to the end; by the time his brain started getting noticeable boosts, he managed to argue himself out of fighting the transformation, and another hour later managed to argue his magic out of fighting the transformation. That was still not enough to make it faster overall.

[taste_tester]

"Finally," Addy says, when she hears his heart speed up.

[mrsparkle]

That last part is a bit faster than usual, but it doesn't change that much. He jumps, and he is:

overhwelmed.

He hears her voice - her voice is gorgeous, how could he have ever considered her face her most beautiful aspect when she had a voice like that - and he turns to look at her.

And he turns, it is immediate, he has thought and it has happened, no delay, no visual blur, just the desire and its outcome. Except not really, because he does also see everything in between, in full detail. But then he sees her, and he was wrong, she's so beautiful, her face might well be as beautiful as her voice, he was blind before as well as deaf-

The scent.

The scent.

He makes a noise he didn't know was possible, and he drinks.

[taste_tester]

Addy was kind enough to put it on ice for him, so it hasn't gone off.

"Feel better?" she asks, when he's emptied the buckets.

[mrsparkle]

"Yes," he says emphatically, and he's startled by his own voice. He laughs, and even his laughter is musical. "You didn't mention the expanded senses! Am I even using my magical cones-" He checks. "Nope, I'm not! They got burnt off! You could see ultraviolet all along!"

[taste_tester]

"I could, it's true! I usually use my pupils' powers more with them than I did with you, but my results would have been going off entirely the wrong baseline."

[mrsparkle]

"I can barely remember what happened then. Shit, eidetic memory's drowning out my human memories, you didn't tell me that!" He growls. How dare she hide this from him! He could've- done something, written stuff down, now he won't remember, what if he's forgotten, it's her fault, he should hurt her for it-

Nope. Nnnnoooope, he should not. He cuts the growl short, and startles himself into growling again, and then dissolves into a fit of giggles, which itself becomes loud laughter. That was hilarious!

[taste_tester]

"Oh yeah, that. Well, look, I didn't want to kill you. You'll remember anything really important."

[mrsparkle]

He nods a bit jerkily and thinks. Mum: Laura. Good. Last name: Woods, that's important, he's English. And...

There's just so much room, he can think so many things at the same time with almost arbitrary detail but why is everything so distracting fudging stupid vampire brain taking attention from everything and he's growling again but it's such a ridiculous notion that he starts laughing except who's this ducker laughing at him growl again oh wait it's him-

"How do you not get distracted by your own thoughts? Is everything going to-"

Food. He smells food and he's still so thirsty why does it burn wait the food's going away he has to go after it- Addy's there, she'll steal his food from him he should kill her no he shouldn't she'll kill him instead if he tries he growls and he bolts.

[taste_tester]

Addy chases him from a little ways back. Not close enough to make it look like she's planning to steal the food.

[mrsparkle]

He notices it, and draws the correct non-food-stealing conclusion. Good. Food stealing is bad, he'd hate to have to fight her.

He can hear his food, the delicious heartbeat, the-

He stops suddenly and holds his breath, then spins on his heels and darts directly away from where the food was.

[taste_tester]

He nearly runs into Addy. "What, not hungry after all?"

[mrsparkle]

He raises a finger and says, "Wait a second," without renewing his storage of air.

He notices he doesn't need to breathe at all. That's neat, he's not sure if Addy mentioned this when he was still human, the memories are muddy, but that's neat.

He inhales tentatively, then resumes breathing normally to talk. "Not hungry enough to want to kill someone. I need to go find those buckets again."

[taste_tester]

"They're right where you left them. Probably dissolving a little around the rims where you drank from them, but they'll hold blood. Might be more efficient just to generate it directly in your mouth, though."

[mrsparkle]

He blinks, and nods. That's a good idea, yes, one he hadn't thought of before because everything else was so- "Overwhelming, how do you deal with it?"

He starts producing human blood instead of venom in his mouth and drinking it. It tastes like his own blood did when he was still human, and it's produced much faster than he'd be able to actually bleed it as a human with a beating heart.

[taste_tester]

"Practice. That and I'm not being confronted unexpectedly by that thing you're doing now; that'll test any vampire's control if you start doing it all of a sudden, you could get some very violent kisses that way."

[mrsparkle]

He stops producing blood and swallows what's already in his mouth then washes it down with some more venom then nods. "Yeah, okay, will keep this in mind."

Chug chug chug!