What's the point of success if it tears everything assunder? Better to fail then.
[In another world, one older and in such different circumstances, those words might ring out differently. Such as it is, Alucard just gives up holding back the tears that have been threatening to escape for a time. He misses the shift in tone. Misses the offered hand, because everything's gone blurry.
(Also, his hands? Covered in fish.)]
They are fine. There is simply a heart in two hands and one is fading.
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[In another world, one older and in such different circumstances, those words might ring out differently. Such as it is, Alucard just gives up holding back the tears that have been threatening to escape for a time. He misses the shift in tone. Misses the offered hand, because everything's gone blurry.
(Also, his hands? Covered in fish.)]
They are fine. There is simply a heart in two hands and one is fading.