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Who: Koel and OPEN
When: The Day 72/Evening of Day 72
Where: The cookhouse
What: Food, and also Vampires Anonymous
Warnings: Discussion of vampires and blood and flesh and eating/drinking them and related topics.

Freeing

[Once Day 72 dawns, Koel is doing much better. The care, the potions, the treatment, was finally working. The iron injuries still burned, and she still limped, but her strength was returning, and her voice actually sounded like hers.

So, before feeding times, she gets to work. She knows what she needs to do, and those who are in the cookhouse will find Koel coming to them, giving them instructions on cooking...alternative foods.]

Feeding

[Those who come to eat breakfast (menemen, a breakfast soup), lunch (nice and meaty gyros), or dinner (churrasco-style picanha cut meat with two slices of pa amb tomàquet) will also find a notice on the doors of the cookhouse.]

ATTN: VAMPIRE CARNIVAL WORKERS
If you are a vampire, please do not hesitate to request the chefs on duty for a dish suited to your current dietary needs. The Cookhouse is prepared and will fulfill them for as long as you require.

- K. Babic
Head Chef

[There's another, smaller notice on the door as well.]

VAMPIRES ANONYMOUS
If you are a vampire, there will be a meeting one hour after dinner hours have finished in the Cookhouse. It is being hosted by a carnival member with prior experience in dealing with vampire and vampire-like individuals. Please feel free to join - this is intended to be a space where you may freely discuss with others that share your new condition without judgement.

Refreshments will be provided.

[Those who come into the cookhouse and request the alternative food will find...food very much like that which is being served. But with differences. The red sauces, spices, broths and spreads used are bloody, and the meat is definitely not chicken or beef.]

Feeling

[And, that evening, there is Koel, sitting patiently, wings carefully folded behind her chair. The corner of the Cookhouse mess hall that she is sitting in has one of the tables, with some finger food and some drinks. All of it vampire-friendly.

Welcome to Vampires' Anonymous. Apparently Koel has experience with this.]

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"Well..." Koel closes her eyes. "The very first thing I'd recommend, is to relax. Try to keep a clear mind. Take some deep breaths."

Even if, being the dead kind of vampire, that last one sounded ridiculous. She knows it does.

"And...don't deprive yourself."

Sora closes his eyes, and tries his best to follow the instructions. He's been breathing out of habit thus far, but consciously breathing is weird when you don't actually need air to live. He doesn't open his eyes again until Koel speaks again.

"Deprive... myself?"

"Correct." Koel nodded quietly. "Eating and drinking properly, as a vampire. Not doing that will only make keeping control in the long run more difficult."

"You mean like, blood?" Sora makes a face at that, but honestly, he's been drinking blood regularly since he got back. He hates that he likes it so much.

"Yes. Blood, bloodied flesh, whatever sates your hunger." Koel quietly nodded again. "I know the Ringmaster has plans for helping to exorcise vampirism. However, you must make for the possibility that this isn't temporary, as well."

Sora pales at this, which is a feat considering how pale he already is right now.

"You mean... it might never go away?"

He's not sure he could deal with that. Knowing the situation is temporary is one thing, but... Let's just say he never wanted his fangs to actually be useable.

"It may not." Ah, that fear. It was...well. He's just a kid. Its absolutely understandable. "And if that is what happens? You must consider what you will do."

She speaks gently, but firmly. Not that she didn't have faith in the Ringmaster, but stranger things have happened, after all.

"I... I don't know."

He looks down at his lap and sighs. He misses the sun. And real food. He misses being alive. What would he do, if it was gone forever? He can't even fathom it, let alone be faced with the very real possibility of it.

"..."

If Sora will let her, she will offer a hug for him. He definitely needed it.

He will absolutely take that hug, because he absolutely does need it. It's unlike him, to be so down on himself, but the situation is something he's never encountered before. A hug would be great.