We're working on it. There's too much magic on the stairs that will activate on the way up that we can well and truly rush through it.

[He uses we, and he means all three of them. Alucard's hand goes to the door knob, and he flings it open. Now is when the real work begins, because everything else? That has been easy so far. Too easy by far, and Alucard doesn't like that fact.

There's a low hiss as he floats over the threshold, back into the corridor.]

Start already.

[Get it over with.]