[This isn't helping at all. Alucard can't say he minds though, as it's more opportunity to just sit and play with Sypha's hair. It's fine and thick and wonderful in the sunlight, catching the afternoon's rays perfectly.]

A house like that is built to watch the river go by. What you've just described sounds like the ideal place to spend a long and lazy vacation, or to retire to.

[They'll go someplace like that. Find a hotel or a rental property and that will be all that they do for a week when they're not in bed with each other. It might be nearly as nice as this moment now.

No houses. No books. Now she has both in spades.]

Out of everyone, I expect he might have understood best though.