[Alucard's hands remain flat on the table. That's for himself. To keep him from speaking in anger. He knows how this needs to go, how he needs to treat this as coldly and clinically as possible, because they're both emotional idiots who once one starts, the other is only going to follow up, and it's the worst negative feedback loop known to man.
He hates that he's forced to go first, but it isn't a surprise.]
They were here when you weren't.
[A simple statement of fact to begin with. Testing the waters.]
no subject
He hates that he's forced to go first, but it isn't a surprise.]
They were here when you weren't.
[A simple statement of fact to begin with. Testing the waters.]