[ There are concerning signs. When Sypha holds a frozen palm to the back of his head to reduce the swelling, he asks three separate times why his head is cold. He complains when Alucard tells him to remain alert of needing to splash water on his face, only to look uselessly around for a sink that isn't in this kitchen, as if he thinks he's still in the castle. When Alucard sighs and draws close to kiss his forehead he narrows his eyes with a low, wary 'Fangs, vampire. Away from me.'
He also still isn't capable of walking steadily across the room, apparently Sypha's test for whether he can sleep safely unassisted, by the time that short summer night comes and goes and the hour grows so late that he can't physically remain awake.
It's a powerful paralysis spell that she uses in the end, to immobilize him and keep any injury from becoming worse, and that might have been more distressing even than his brief failure to recall the last four years spent with Alucard. He can't remember why he's being held in place like this, no matter how gently Sypha holds him and whispers that he's safe. His eyes are wild with horror even as the rest of his face seems calm. His fingers twitch only slightly against the spell. Exhaustion finally overtakes him after a half hour of it and he finally falls asleep.
And then the waiting begins. Because he can't be left unattended like this. ]
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He also still isn't capable of walking steadily across the room, apparently Sypha's test for whether he can sleep safely unassisted, by the time that short summer night comes and goes and the hour grows so late that he can't physically remain awake.
It's a powerful paralysis spell that she uses in the end, to immobilize him and keep any injury from becoming worse, and that might have been more distressing even than his brief failure to recall the last four years spent with Alucard. He can't remember why he's being held in place like this, no matter how gently Sypha holds him and whispers that he's safe. His eyes are wild with horror even as the rest of his face seems calm. His fingers twitch only slightly against the spell. Exhaustion finally overtakes him after a half hour of it and he finally falls asleep.
And then the waiting begins. Because he can't be left unattended like this. ]