[Some shame done, that's for sure. The kiss placates the dhampir though, and it comes with a soft, rich laugh.] I suppose you're right about Damien. It's a silver lining in the worst of that...whatever you want to call it.

[The silver dust thing. Was that when Trevor realized? Alucard knows it is for himself, but he says nothing about that. He only smiles stupidly at his Belmont, and buries the top of his face into Trevor's hair.]

That was what did it? Truly?

[His breath is impossibly warm as he speaks.]