[What's clever about this trick is that it forces them to choose between one and the other, clinging to each other at the expense of watching for the dogs, or watching their theoretical foes at the expense of being able to stay together. No matter what they do, it's a poisoned choice, and perhaps that's exactly the reason they're beset with it now.
Still, she knows what she has to choose. Whatever the dogs are (and she suspects she knows, or at least has an idea), they can't act without provocation. They can't complete their duties without invitation. They cannot hurt guests from a foreign court without cause.
So she tries. She tries to focus on Alucard, to reach for him and draw him in, but her fingers are slipping and she's only just barely got him by two fingers of his own now, a little less able to hold on with every passing second.]
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Still, she knows what she has to choose. Whatever the dogs are (and she suspects she knows, or at least has an idea), they can't act without provocation. They can't complete their duties without invitation. They cannot hurt guests from a foreign court without cause.
So she tries. She tries to focus on Alucard, to reach for him and draw him in, but her fingers are slipping and she's only just barely got him by two fingers of his own now, a little less able to hold on with every passing second.]