[The mirrors have to be tools of basic need again, not of comfort. There's time for sentimentality about it later, but for now they're about travel and about ensuring that this entire thing goes right. Alucard hates it too (he's kept both mirrors as a horrible trophy of victory, not cataloged in the Hold but put aside in his own little collection of them) but some things must be what they are.]
I would argue that Sypha also broke the castle, but that was with a boost from your family's research. Approaching this place would be starting from scratch. But...
[Alucard pauses, then tilts his head in genuine consideration.]
If it is similar to the front doors, where blood calls to blood, then we may not be in as deep as it seems we are.
[He knows. He knows it sounds like magic, and there's an apologetic look on Alucard's face, but trying to think like his father 400 years ago means relying on less elaborate mechanisms and more magic. Somewhat base. More blood and spit and who owns what.]
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I would argue that Sypha also broke the castle, but that was with a boost from your family's research. Approaching this place would be starting from scratch. But...
[Alucard pauses, then tilts his head in genuine consideration.]
If it is similar to the front doors, where blood calls to blood, then we may not be in as deep as it seems we are.
[He knows. He knows it sounds like magic, and there's an apologetic look on Alucard's face, but trying to think like his father 400 years ago means relying on less elaborate mechanisms and more magic. Somewhat base. More blood and spit and who owns what.]