Iron- shit. We need to test that. I'd rather find out if it affects you like this now, rather than at the time.

[ Shit. There's so many things, still, to account for. ]

First things first. I have the salt here. I'm going to raise your hand, see if I can sustain a basic ward through you.

[ And he does that, raising Alucard's sword hand to point the sword outward. At the point of it, the air shimmers like the way the city's roads shimmer in the summer heat. There's not much to it, visually, but Alucard's vampire senses can just about pick up a shimmering circle of air in front of him, about his height in diameter. ]