[ He slides a hand gently into the crook of Felipe's elbow. How strange not to be able to hear him, as though he's human again. But that had been his appeal the first time around, right?
Louis manacles him there as he tells him of his new situation: ]
There's not much that can hurt creatures like what we are. But sunlight does it, and I didn't want you haring off and burning yourself to ashes. Better to keep you safe until night fell.
[ Has it only been a day? Or has it been two? He'd hoped to have blood ready for him, to save them having to go out into town, but he hadn't been able to do it, pick a stranger and talk him into coming into the bookshop to die. Part of it is that he's using the bookshop at all — it feels wrong to bring killing here, when it's something he built during the brief dream that he might be allowed to be human. Plus it's more Wesley's than his own these days. ]
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[ He slides a hand gently into the crook of Felipe's elbow. How strange not to be able to hear him, as though he's human again. But that had been his appeal the first time around, right?
Louis manacles him there as he tells him of his new situation: ]
There's not much that can hurt creatures like what we are. But sunlight does it, and I didn't want you haring off and burning yourself to ashes. Better to keep you safe until night fell.
[ Has it only been a day? Or has it been two? He'd hoped to have blood ready for him, to save them having to go out into town, but he hadn't been able to do it, pick a stranger and talk him into coming into the bookshop to die. Part of it is that he's using the bookshop at all — it feels wrong to bring killing here, when it's something he built during the brief dream that he might be allowed to be human. Plus it's more Wesley's than his own these days. ]