Oh, something tells me that bringing pups to school was also the least of your own shenanigans. But now I digress.

[The worst of all of this is well past. Thank goodness. So all Alucard can do now is move one hand to stroke Trevor's hair, soft and reverent as the gesture always is.]

But I'll stay on the topic of dogs. I was...oh, five when I learned to become a wolf and how to get around in that form. My father taught me the particulars over the course of a week while my mother was out of the house, attending a medical conference in Washington. [A ways away.]

Unsurprisingly, my sleep schedule immediately became standard vampire hours. I was as happy as anything about it, because it meant more time with my father. My mother, however, was less thrilled when she returned home and I refused to sleep at my normal time. [There's a soft laugh as Alucard continues.] And then my father had to withdraw from our home due to some vampire reason. I don't recall the exact nature. What I do recall is running around the house as a wolf some evening, trying to change back, and failing.

[Lisa Tepes had to deal with so much bullshit.]

I couldn't remember the trick to it, and it took my father four days to return home.