[Some of the agony recedes once she's across the threshold of the house, which doesn't particularly surprise her in retrospect, but catches her off-guard initially. The shadows begin to seep away like ink washed away beneath water, abandoning her limbs as she collapses to the floor, sapped of her energy and exhausted with the floorboards cool and slick beneath her cheek.
She doesn't know how long she lies there, but it's Alucard's voice that rouses her from her stupor; she crawls toward it, one knee after another, until she passes through a doorway that leads her to a room identical to the one she just left, but this one containing Alucard.]
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She doesn't know how long she lies there, but it's Alucard's voice that rouses her from her stupor; she crawls toward it, one knee after another, until she passes through a doorway that leads her to a room identical to the one she just left, but this one containing Alucard.]
I'm here...right here...