[Alucard returns home to an empty castle. It is at that point where he eats and drinks what he must, then collapses in his bed. Damn if his father's still home and could destroy him in his sleep. If Alucard dies, he makes this house harder for his father to live in.
He sleeps for three very long days. When he rises, the castle is still empty. Wherever it is his father has fled so that he might mourn, it is not home. Alucard cannot blame him. This place now is as much a tomb as his mother's actual final resting place. Quiet. Still. All life robbed of it, because the central force that kept it so full of life is now gone for eternity.
The thought hits him like a truck. Renders him into tears, until the pain from sobbing is literally painful. A reminder to check his bandages, which Alucard does. Undoing the wrappings take time and effort, and for it he's rewarded with skin that is only slightly healed. He hisses at it, then forces himself to enter his mother's lab to take supplies.
(It still smells of her. All a careful mix of her perfume, medical supplies, and faintest hint of soap.)
Bandaging it all takes time. Time in an empty and horrible house, and Alucard wants out of it. He...he's not sure what that means, but he owes Miss Belnades a new robe. So to the fabric store first, and then to one of the parts of town where there's some new fortune teller that's come in.
When Alucard approaches Sypha's set up, it is carrying several bags. A man who's doing the shopping for someone, perhaps, for he looks like no one's son anymore. He's too old and weary for that mistake now.]
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He sleeps for three very long days. When he rises, the castle is still empty. Wherever it is his father has fled so that he might mourn, it is not home. Alucard cannot blame him. This place now is as much a tomb as his mother's actual final resting place. Quiet. Still. All life robbed of it, because the central force that kept it so full of life is now gone for eternity.
The thought hits him like a truck. Renders him into tears, until the pain from sobbing is literally painful. A reminder to check his bandages, which Alucard does. Undoing the wrappings take time and effort, and for it he's rewarded with skin that is only slightly healed. He hisses at it, then forces himself to enter his mother's lab to take supplies.
(It still smells of her. All a careful mix of her perfume, medical supplies, and faintest hint of soap.)
Bandaging it all takes time. Time in an empty and horrible house, and Alucard wants out of it. He...he's not sure what that means, but he owes Miss Belnades a new robe. So to the fabric store first, and then to one of the parts of town where there's some new fortune teller that's come in.
When Alucard approaches Sypha's set up, it is carrying several bags. A man who's doing the shopping for someone, perhaps, for he looks like no one's son anymore. He's too old and weary for that mistake now.]