[ Midnight pauses... Then shifts, holding out his wrist. ]
You must understand that I can do only a fraction of what I could do back home, and even that much was quite small. But this... Here's a very basic thing. You'll see my blood begin to smoke; please don't touch it or breathe it in.
[ He gently disentangles his arm from Don's for a moment, touches his arm, and draws a small, straight line across his wrist. The skin, in turn, splits open, immediately fills with a small line of red. That small line of red then turns black, then crystalizes into small dots over the cut; true to what he says, the black crystals begin to emit a very small amount of black smoke. ]
It's the cutting bit that's the vampire, by the way. Had the city allowed me more, I could also make blood move, float... but only in very small quantities.
cw: blood
You must understand that I can do only a fraction of what I could do back home, and even that much was quite small. But this... Here's a very basic thing. You'll see my blood begin to smoke; please don't touch it or breathe it in.
[ He gently disentangles his arm from Don's for a moment, touches his arm, and draws a small, straight line across his wrist. The skin, in turn, splits open, immediately fills with a small line of red. That small line of red then turns black, then crystalizes into small dots over the cut; true to what he says, the black crystals begin to emit a very small amount of black smoke. ]
It's the cutting bit that's the vampire, by the way. Had the city allowed me more, I could also make blood move, float... but only in very small quantities.