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hey so quick question how do I explain why I bleed ink to my boyfriend -yes he's already seen it -I was cutting up vegetables and scratched a finger -it'd be great if someone could give advice relatively soon because I don't know how long 'I need to lie down and then I'll talk to you about it' will work, he's still panicking he's just not demanding an answer right this second thanks for the help

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Hypoxemia, kidney disease, hemophilia...?

which of those makes your blood look black? or at least dark?

The first two would plausibly make blood darker. The second if the bleeding isn't stopping as quickly as it should.

well that's a pretty unique problem
why do you bleed ink?

I'm not technically human anymore. But I can't just say that.

oh
what are you then?
you're not a squid or something are you?

[brooke no]

Hypoxemia it is. Thanks for the help, you're a lifesaver.

Book spirit. Dead person who can go into books now and has ink for blood, I don't know the technical term.

Oh, no... And he's not forgetting?

oh really?
that's pretty cool actually
except for the dead person part

anyway what'll happen if you tell your boyfriend the truth?
i know they can't see retrospec
but i'm kind of curious what would happen if you tried to talk to them about this sort of thing

He's not. I can hear him in the other room.

Sure thing. It's still sort of a dangerous condition, though... Is he the sort of person who'd accept an explanation like that, or would he WebMD things?

If the normal people are remembering, I don't know what to do... Maybe there's a way to convince him it was just the lighting?

Normally, they wouldn't believe you. But they also dismiss things like fruit growing faces and monsters showing up everywhere as 'normal'. This is different and I don't know what would happen.

I'm bad at lying, but I'm really bad at gaslighting. And that's not something I want to do except as a last resort anyway.

i guess it'd probably be best not to test that theory
at least not with something this important
it might just freak him out even more

you could just say it's a medical condition or something

He's going to look it up, probably so he can be more supportive and take care of me better. He's that kind of boyfriend. I don't deserve him and I have to lie to his face. I hate this so much.

That's the most believable story... I don't like it but I don't have any better options.

yeah it sounds tough
i guess that's the problem with dating someone who isn't involved in all of this

oh yeah the cut isn't too bad is it?
probably should've asked that first

He used to be involved with it. A while ago he just forgot everything Retrospec-related. Just a scratch, honest. I'd have more pressing things to do than type if I sliced my finger off or something.

that can happen?
that really sucks i'm sorry

that's good though
make sure to take care of it
even if you don't have normal blood it can probably still get infected right?

It's pretty frequent. A lot of people I know have forgotten things that way. I don't know and I don't want to find out. I can heal it up by drinking ink, but I really don't want to try to explain that to Mista.

you can heal by drinking ink?
that's really crazy
does it taste bad?

However awful you think it tastes, it probably tastes worse.

that sounds really gross
i guess it's good that you can heal like that but that sounds terrible

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