[when he takes it out, there's a faint scream from somewhere else on campus. Sorry, Sherlock.
With the undamaged hand, he picks up his phone and checks it - a text? - and shoots off a 'What' to the vampire while still focusing on Flat, not paying attention to whatever Sherlock wrote.]
Hm, well - You've read the books, so I assume you remember how I 'met my end', as it were? I bounced off a rock - and my spine was broken in two places. When the immortality took hold, it was repaired - but since the severing was so intense, it's continually regenerating.
[He laughs.]
I actually dragged myself out of the falls and then went mad with pain - It took 5 years for my mind to piece itself back together! But because of the pain, I simply can't feel anything that doesn't approach the level of agony I continually go through. It's amazing what the human mind can adapt to, isn't it?
[He says it so cheerfully that it's hard to imagine he's telling the truth, and yet...]
Anyway! Yes, I will regenerate cut off digits or limbs, though it takes time. For a finger, it's about a week or two - for an arm, around two to three months. Of course, if the limb or digit is still in one piece, it's much quicker and easier to merely hold it to the wound and allow it to reconnect itself.
[He holds up his hand, which is already beginning to show signs of knitting together under the blood.]
As for decapitation....hm. I'm not quite sure! I've never undergone it myself, but I would assume that I would be 'dead' for however long it took for a body to regrow, or to reconnect my head to my body again.
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With the undamaged hand, he picks up his phone and checks it - a text? - and shoots off a 'What' to the vampire while still focusing on Flat, not paying attention to whatever Sherlock wrote.]
Hm, well - You've read the books, so I assume you remember how I 'met my end', as it were? I bounced off a rock - and my spine was broken in two places. When the immortality took hold, it was repaired - but since the severing was so intense, it's continually regenerating.
[He laughs.]
I actually dragged myself out of the falls and then went mad with pain - It took 5 years for my mind to piece itself back together! But because of the pain, I simply can't feel anything that doesn't approach the level of agony I continually go through. It's amazing what the human mind can adapt to, isn't it?
[He says it so cheerfully that it's hard to imagine he's telling the truth, and yet...]
Anyway! Yes, I will regenerate cut off digits or limbs, though it takes time. For a finger, it's about a week or two - for an arm, around two to three months. Of course, if the limb or digit is still in one piece, it's much quicker and easier to merely hold it to the wound and allow it to reconnect itself.
[He holds up his hand, which is already beginning to show signs of knitting together under the blood.]
As for decapitation....hm. I'm not quite sure! I've never undergone it myself, but I would assume that I would be 'dead' for however long it took for a body to regrow, or to reconnect my head to my body again.