[There are easy memories to parse through, ones not wrapped up in the sheer bugfuck horror of what Dracula did after Lisa's death. Ones outside that little bedroom (scene of a murder), many in the library, a few in Gresit, and outside at night with about five telescopes because they all had different and important uses. Going through the details, seeking something, that's harder.

Alucard pauses, then shakes his head because he's realized the logic of the few times he ever saw it. Never at home. A place of power, yes, but also a place to reassert his father's lost humanity. Why would his mother even entertain it being used?]

Not unless he was away from the castle. I never paid attention to it or felt any ill effects, but it was still on his person. If the kind of magic used here is any indication, it could respond only to him. We'd be better off acting as cautiously as possible. This thing is still an unknown quantity in all the ways that matter.