Four years and you don't understand when I'm employing a metaphor.

[Alucard removes his glove to be sure. Even the earth is warm here.]

I said like an island, if we're looking at time as an ocean and this place as a small little outcropping in it.

[He straightens up, and then looks ahead.]

It's as it was left, season and all. That means whatever we find inside that estate, it shall be as it was when this place was abandoned.