He couldn't stay because the story was still young. Known by too few. If his presence summoned Dracula's wrath upon your people, you would suffer it gladly to help someone. But you couldn't allow the story to be lost.

[ He doesn't know this. He suspected, because he had known that Sypha had come into Alucard's life around the time of his mother's death. He had known Alucard was injured at the same time. But he never asked.

But he's known Speakers. And they do not fear death, but the stories they carry within them are fragile things when they are young and the death of a few could destroy them entirely. And the stories, unlike their lives, are not theirs to lose.

You don't give a Speaker a gun if you want them to live. You give them a secret. He's given Sypha both. ]

He has the two of us now. He'll sleep the night in his own home, and he knows your name better than he knows anything else.