[She gravitates backwards just a fraction when Alucard starts to speak, just enough to subtly put him at the forefront of the picture they make while she settles back in support, like ceding the imaginary podium to him while the partygoers look on. The explanation of what had happened is as much news to her as it is to the vampires, and she can't help but cast a surreptitious glance at Trevor in quiet astonishment.
That the hunters encroached on the city isn't the bizarre part. It's not even the part about how they somehow missed that there was a Belmont already here. It's the fact that they were invited to come and raid by someone taking a covert hand in this attack, and while they may have caught the instrument of chaos in the form of the hunters, they've missed the influence that spurred them on to do it in the first place.
Still, things wrap up quickly. The festivities are over, and Sypha is half tempted to just abandon her shoes to the parlor and retrieve them later, except that it occurs to her that she'll need them to drive, so she has to go back and get them. When she returns, she's tugging them on one by one, making a little face as they start to press uncomfortably on her sore feet again.]
I will drive us home, unless you think that driving would settle your nerves.
[So she says, quietly enough that even in a room full of vampires, it's for Alucard's ears only.]
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That the hunters encroached on the city isn't the bizarre part. It's not even the part about how they somehow missed that there was a Belmont already here. It's the fact that they were invited to come and raid by someone taking a covert hand in this attack, and while they may have caught the instrument of chaos in the form of the hunters, they've missed the influence that spurred them on to do it in the first place.
Still, things wrap up quickly. The festivities are over, and Sypha is half tempted to just abandon her shoes to the parlor and retrieve them later, except that it occurs to her that she'll need them to drive, so she has to go back and get them. When she returns, she's tugging them on one by one, making a little face as they start to press uncomfortably on her sore feet again.]
I will drive us home, unless you think that driving would settle your nerves.
[So she says, quietly enough that even in a room full of vampires, it's for Alucard's ears only.]