[ It's changed over time, of course. It started out as just the compulsion. The demands not to breathe. Familiar events replayed, but with the vampire responsible wearing Alucard's skin instead of his own. Sypha was there, back then, with the speakers, in the roles of the hapless victims. ]
About three and a half since Leontine started showing up.
[ So the first summer after Dracula's defeat, around the time when the two of them had finally managed to convince Alucard that whatever it was they had between them, he was welcome and wanted within it. ]
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[ It's changed over time, of course. It started out as just the compulsion. The demands not to breathe. Familiar events replayed, but with the vampire responsible wearing Alucard's skin instead of his own. Sypha was there, back then, with the speakers, in the roles of the hapless victims. ]
About three and a half since Leontine started showing up.
[ So the first summer after Dracula's defeat, around the time when the two of them had finally managed to convince Alucard that whatever it was they had between them, he was welcome and wanted within it. ]