excellent! The counting rice thing will throw him a bit, but he'll probably explain that he's vaguely familiar with the rest because most of the things she's heard about vampires do exist in his world, but in the sense of rumors or easily explained cultural practices (sleeping in coffins used to be fashionable centuries ago LMAO).

ooh, midnight will be very interested to hear about magic explained in that sense! magic DOES sort of exist in his world, but he'll only mention it in the sense that it's treated more like a science, and he never really got a good education in it :ob He's way more interested in, like, thoughts being made real? He knows of a few Arts casters who can do that, but they're like, almost gods. The fact that just stories can do stuff like that will be highly interesting to him, if only because he loves books.

Now that I've climbed out of my tag pile, would you mind if I tagged you somewhere? I haven't checked if you made a top level or a catch-all anywhere, but I'd be happy to hit you with a fair prompt in Jo's inbox at some point soon. :') Tell me what works for you!