Well, it wasn't, and I'm sure that the finer technicalities were mostly listened to but never recorded in full.
[Alucard is not Trevor. He is not going to memorize the passages here, and there's a lot of reasons for it. The biggest, the most important, is because his father never shared any of this. He did not want his son to know. (He probably never told Alucard's mother either.)]
There was an outbreak of the plague.
[He flips through a few pages, and taps in the lower right corner with where it all begins.]
And he knew the source, or at least had a very good guess. Rats. Dog, whose real name by the way is Aurelius, helped to find nests, while somehow never catching the plague himself. [The dog may just be magic.] Going in, having no illness, it was too suspicious. Worse that Mathias was a stranger to the place with no reputation as one of the cunning folk otherwise.
[He sighs, flipping another page and running his finger along a passage.]
And he would have escaped scrutiny had he responded to questions from town officials with anything but the claim that this was a part of natural history and knowledge. That he relied on no saints or church blessings to find where these rats were and to ensure his own safety.
no subject
[Alucard is not Trevor. He is not going to memorize the passages here, and there's a lot of reasons for it. The biggest, the most important, is because his father never shared any of this. He did not want his son to know. (He probably never told Alucard's mother either.)]
There was an outbreak of the plague.
[He flips through a few pages, and taps in the lower right corner with where it all begins.]
And he knew the source, or at least had a very good guess. Rats. Dog, whose real name by the way is Aurelius, helped to find nests, while somehow never catching the plague himself. [The dog may just be magic.] Going in, having no illness, it was too suspicious. Worse that Mathias was a stranger to the place with no reputation as one of the cunning folk otherwise.
[He sighs, flipping another page and running his finger along a passage.]
And he would have escaped scrutiny had he responded to questions from town officials with anything but the claim that this was a part of natural history and knowledge. That he relied on no saints or church blessings to find where these rats were and to ensure his own safety.