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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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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]

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

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

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 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

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

Chugging ink is super gross, but at least it's quicker than however long it takes to normally heal serious injuries. I can deal with it.

yeah that is a pretty good trade off
do you know how much it'll heal?
like could it fix a broken bone or something?

I twisted my ankle really badly and it healed that fine. Also I was beaten near death once?

oh wow
it's good that you could heal from that
but what happened?

I wish this was a longer story than it is, but it boils down to 'guy I'd never met on the street attacked me'.

that's terrifying
was the guy caught?

...I just realized that I have no idea.

hopefully he was
sorry you had to go through that though
even if you can heal your injuries that's still a terrible thing to have to experience

Thanks. At least the biggest danger right now is walking into invisible walls. How are you holding up?

yeah it's kind of a relief
it could've been much worse probably

i'm doing okay
i'm not really an artsy type so this has been
interesting

No one's asking for fine art right now, anybody can slap paint on a wall. Even I can do that and I'm terrible with my hands.