[ They talk, and Trevor doesn't know what about. When he returns with fish and firewood to cook them over, Alucard is gone. They don't meet again for a little over two years.
Alucard sees Sypha in that time, though. Words, ones that aren't written down, cannot be burned, and through her, Lisa can use the speakers to whisper her understanding of medicine into the ears of a people who wouldn't trust the words of a book even if they could read. Proper science can be disguised as folk knowledge - it's amazing what people will accept if told that Sypha heard it from a friend's grandmother.
'Grandmother sounds more trustworthy', she tells Lisa, who only pretends to be offended.
Trevor doesn't attend these meetings. Every few months, Sypha stays at Lisa's clinic for the better part of a week. She brings advice that people have shared with her in exchange for Lisa's wisdom and asks her to check the veracity of it. She continues in her ongoing quest to become closer to Alucard. And she mentions Trevor only once, when she arrives with yet another of those bottles, one almost entirely full, and says that 'he' asks her to take its contents to Dracula and to leave, soon. They do. The woman that they rescued is moved, as well, but to a different place.
Sypha is late, when Dracula himself falls upon the clinic, demanding that Lisa and Alucard finish their work with this patient and then leave for the castle immediately. She ought to have arrived almost a fortnight ago. That isn't why Dracula is concerned.
There is a hunt stirring. The Belmonts are breaking their own laws, their oath to only hunt on the night of all hallows every seventh year, and he doesn't know which other laws they intend to violate. ]
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Alucard sees Sypha in that time, though. Words, ones that aren't written down, cannot be burned, and through her, Lisa can use the speakers to whisper her understanding of medicine into the ears of a people who wouldn't trust the words of a book even if they could read. Proper science can be disguised as folk knowledge - it's amazing what people will accept if told that Sypha heard it from a friend's grandmother.
'Grandmother sounds more trustworthy', she tells Lisa, who only pretends to be offended.
Trevor doesn't attend these meetings. Every few months, Sypha stays at Lisa's clinic for the better part of a week. She brings advice that people have shared with her in exchange for Lisa's wisdom and asks her to check the veracity of it. She continues in her ongoing quest to become closer to Alucard. And she mentions Trevor only once, when she arrives with yet another of those bottles, one almost entirely full, and says that 'he' asks her to take its contents to Dracula and to leave, soon. They do. The woman that they rescued is moved, as well, but to a different place.
Sypha is late, when Dracula himself falls upon the clinic, demanding that Lisa and Alucard finish their work with this patient and then leave for the castle immediately. She ought to have arrived almost a fortnight ago. That isn't why Dracula is concerned.
There is a hunt stirring. The Belmonts are breaking their own laws, their oath to only hunt on the night of all hallows every seventh year, and he doesn't know which other laws they intend to violate. ]