[Alucard's plan happens as he scurries up the scaffolds to where the high wire acts are all gathered. There's five people cramped onto one platform, and there's still a net under there for their safety. He can find a way to gather them all up on him, call it a feat of strength, and float down. Memory will say that it all happened in slow motion. They can land and get the hell out of there.
It should work, so long as the tiger is distracted. When Alucard looks over his shoulder, he sees Trevor about to get into it with the tiger. With a knife, because when does fortune ever favor them in these moments?
The tiger is well and truly distracted. It happens just as Alucard reaches the top of the scaffold, and there's a hurried exchange. (They're Russian, their English is okay, Alucard's is shit, somehow French becomes the language of communication.) There's shuffling, there's wobbling, there's the terrible realization that at most, Alucard can get three people down at a time.
So that's what he has to do. To balance all of the weight, the arrangement works like this: the lighest goes on his shoulders, rather like a backpack. She's young, still a teenager, and she's not scared at all. Hell, she looks like this is the coolest thing that happened in a while. The heaviest, he's a young man close to Alucard's age with more muscle than fat to him, and he's wide like Trevor is. He gets swept up in Alucard's arms. The 30 year old woman who's probably between the two in weight latches onto Alucard's middle after the vampire has stepped a few inches out onto the wire, and they all go down, down, down.
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It should work, so long as the tiger is distracted. When Alucard looks over his shoulder, he sees Trevor about to get into it with the tiger. With a knife, because when does fortune ever favor them in these moments?
The tiger is well and truly distracted. It happens just as Alucard reaches the top of the scaffold, and there's a hurried exchange. (They're Russian, their English is okay, Alucard's is shit, somehow French becomes the language of communication.) There's shuffling, there's wobbling, there's the terrible realization that at most, Alucard can get three people down at a time.
So that's what he has to do. To balance all of the weight, the arrangement works like this: the lighest goes on his shoulders, rather like a backpack. She's young, still a teenager, and she's not scared at all. Hell, she looks like this is the coolest thing that happened in a while. The heaviest, he's a young man close to Alucard's age with more muscle than fat to him, and he's wide like Trevor is. He gets swept up in Alucard's arms. The 30 year old woman who's probably between the two in weight latches onto Alucard's middle after the vampire has stepped a few inches out onto the wire, and they all go down, down, down.
Alucard's eyes remain on Trevor and the tiger.]