[The correct and technical term is don't pull a Dracula.]

That...I've had that discussion. I know. I've known since the necromancer that I can't ever hedge that close to being him again, no matter the circumstance.

[He had realized that only after Sypha was back home. After that awkward reconciliation with Trevor. At the end of the day he had become his father in all the ways that would ever matter in the eyes of the world, and that had scared him far to deeply. Combined with the knowledge that this situation would come to pass eventually, control and discipline had become even more important than they already were.

Alucard still didn't trust himself to not do something stupid. Neither did Sypha, and that was what the discussions were for.]

I've always wondered if you just stowed away to get to America. [It's an idle thought. Comes out without meaning to.]

The castle will be there. I...doubt we will be, if things play out in a certain way. Too many memories at that point. Smells. Everything.