first experiment; 9:53 PM

[originallutece]

For our more vampiric population, I come to you with a solution for your dietary problems.

I've invented artificial blood. A substance you can consume without harming others, but that will sustain you much as food and water. I owe a debt to Elena for helping me test them.

Unfortunately, it cannot yet be used in a medical sense-- for blood transplants, which are, by the by, a very important part of medical knowledge, which makes up the second part of this announcement.

If you do not know your blood type, come see me, and I can at least determine it. Blood types are a vital bit of information in a place where one routinely gets cut to bits. Transfusing blood-- that is, the act of giving one's blood to another-- can save a life in many cases. However, if the wrong sorts of blood interact, the result can be deadly.

Many of you do not know your blood type. This will, inevitably, come back to bite you.

So. I suggest you come by my lab within the next few days and find out, before you nearly die of an injury, manage to make it back to town, and then die of your original blood sensing the invader and killing off the cells that came to theoretically heal you. What a horrible, ironic death that would be.

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[equinoctials]

[ Coffee would've probably been better - Riku hasn't figured out the ratio, yet, so it either comes out looking like dirty water or so bitter and thick nothing short of half a cup of sugar could make it palatable.

He pauses at her question, the corner of his mouth twitching into a smile when he sits. ]

Yeah. Fortunately, even I can't screw up peanut butter on bread.

[ If this comment doesn't inspire great confidence, no one would blame her. ]

Thanks for coming up with a solution for people like Elena. Since she got here, I kept wondering what we were gonna do. She doesn't seem like the type to complain even if she's suffering.

[originallutece]

If she's starving, more like.

[She says it with no small amount of exasperation: not necessarily towards Elena so much as . . . oh, life. Beacon population in general. Her own personal grief. It's a lot.]

In any case: it was a pleasant thought exercise, if nothing else, and gave me a rather decent perspective on our current vampiric population. Many of whom are rather suspicious of my intentions, naturally.

[equinoctials]

[ It's not really a contrast, that Riku closes his eyes and exhales quietly through his nostrils in a sigh at Rosalind's exasperated correction. He's guilty of this, too. Being aware of his shortcomings isn't exactly the same as doing everything he can to overcome them.

But he does what he can.

Elena, he knows, tries hard to help everyone. If there's someone who deserves a little security in one essential aspect of her life, Elena definitely qualifies. ]

I can imagine. People aren't usually kind to those that are different from themselves. In any world.