[It's him. There he is, the same man whose shadows had pulled her through a mirror while the gouges in her arms leftover from Alucard's nails were just beginning to bleed. There he is, the one who chained her over a sigil that would eat away at her magic, who sang to her and used Speaker tricks to burn his horrors into her mind. There he is, the man whose bone saw took others of her people before her, who hunted them and saw them not even as animals, not even as prey, but as ingredients for his next machination, and nothing more.
There he is, tied and fallen and beaten, subjected to the same awful fate he'd been peddling to unsuspecting others before him.
She stays close to Alucard, hands on him, unwilling and unable to let him go. It's better if Trevor has all the room he needs to work, in this smoke. It's going to stupor Alucard, breathing it, and no matter what else might happen, she's got to at least protect him. She's got to.
It startles her, the visceral flood of terror that still crashes over her when she looks at him, even when he's reduced to as pitiful a state as this.]
No...
[Her fingers tighten on Alucard, less holding and more clutching now.]
no subject
There he is, tied and fallen and beaten, subjected to the same awful fate he'd been peddling to unsuspecting others before him.
She stays close to Alucard, hands on him, unwilling and unable to let him go. It's better if Trevor has all the room he needs to work, in this smoke. It's going to stupor Alucard, breathing it, and no matter what else might happen, she's got to at least protect him. She's got to.
It startles her, the visceral flood of terror that still crashes over her when she looks at him, even when he's reduced to as pitiful a state as this.]
No...
[Her fingers tighten on Alucard, less holding and more clutching now.]
His...his magic...