[The hunters are aware, perhaps, that the arrival of yet another vampire is in no way a change for the better, for them. It also becomes immediately clear when Alucard speaks that they would have been much, much better off to have the son of Dracula adjudicating their fates than this, and in that moment anxiety breaks into abject terror — for one of them, at least.
It's the mage, the boy not yet even a man. He's nowhere close to prepared to look danger in the eye, not at this age (not when his last name isn't Belmont). Like a fool, he's already trying to run before he's even managed to push himself to his feet, stumbling and scrabbling as he heaves himself up and tries to make a break for the deeper cover of the trees.]
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It's the mage, the boy not yet even a man. He's nowhere close to prepared to look danger in the eye, not at this age (not when his last name isn't Belmont). Like a fool, he's already trying to run before he's even managed to push himself to his feet, stumbling and scrabbling as he heaves himself up and tries to make a break for the deeper cover of the trees.]