If this works, and you start calling it the 'Magical Stone of Death' afterward, I'm going to fucking bite your arm off again.
[ He probably shouldn't joke about it, this being a third day. But deer's blood sufficed to keep him under control on the sixth day, even if it didn't stop his body from consuming itself the way that Alucard's did. There's less incense - he wouldn't be able to make threats at all if there were any more, even joking ones. But there's a bottle of holy water, and Sypha's given her word to use it and her ice to restrain him should the worst happen.
It's the first time that he's joining in with this shit, which is why he's so quick to complain. He does not do magic. It's a wonder the the transubstantiation works for him (moreso now. He did it in the morning, before the bite set in). Magic is another fucking matter entirely. But they're running out of time. Five more days. Five more days until they leave and he's left alone here. He's willing to try, no matter how stupid it seems.
The arm with the needles in it is frozen to the side of the bed at the wrist. The ice is made with holy water and it already burns even now, but it'll stop him from thrashing that arm about and knocking the needles out of place once the turning sets in (this, they tested on the seventh day, once it became clear that they'd need Alucard as sharp as possible - if Sypha was going to be close to him during the turning, they needed some other form of protection for her. It works, it works well enough that he'll be incorporating it into plans from now on).
He lays the other hand on the stone. ]
So I just have to want really hard to not be a vampire. [ It's a question as well as a probably-unfair dismissal of his role in this whole thing. ] I don't know if I can manage that. I've been enjoying it so much so far.
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[ He probably shouldn't joke about it, this being a third day. But deer's blood sufficed to keep him under control on the sixth day, even if it didn't stop his body from consuming itself the way that Alucard's did. There's less incense - he wouldn't be able to make threats at all if there were any more, even joking ones. But there's a bottle of holy water, and Sypha's given her word to use it and her ice to restrain him should the worst happen.
It's the first time that he's joining in with this shit, which is why he's so quick to complain. He does not do magic. It's a wonder the the transubstantiation works for him (moreso now. He did it in the morning, before the bite set in). Magic is another fucking matter entirely. But they're running out of time. Five more days. Five more days until they leave and he's left alone here. He's willing to try, no matter how stupid it seems.
The arm with the needles in it is frozen to the side of the bed at the wrist. The ice is made with holy water and it already burns even now, but it'll stop him from thrashing that arm about and knocking the needles out of place once the turning sets in (this, they tested on the seventh day, once it became clear that they'd need Alucard as sharp as possible - if Sypha was going to be close to him during the turning, they needed some other form of protection for her. It works, it works well enough that he'll be incorporating it into plans from now on).
He lays the other hand on the stone. ]
So I just have to want really hard to not be a vampire. [ It's a question as well as a probably-unfair dismissal of his role in this whole thing. ] I don't know if I can manage that. I've been enjoying it so much so far.