It's just a nut and bolt. I figured there'd be some lying around. It's a trick I learned when I was a kid and I needed to look after my bi-

[ Wherever he was going with that sentence, he's not going there anymore. Instead he's just staring, mouth hanging open slightly mid-word, as the side of Alucard's shirt slides up.

So this is apparently going to be a thing. Because he's seen significantly more of Alucard than just his ribs now, and this is still getting to him. It's just- very intimate, somehow, when appearances are such a massive part of his armour as the city's regent, to see him without any of those defenses. ]

Are you done, if this works?