[ There are tears in his eyes, by now, from difficulty breathing. He's unhurt, of course. Just afraid. Just more afraid than he he's been in his life. The next cough brings up a few moths, the one after that a few more, and they're momentarily stunned by the impact of it before they fly away.

He looks up when Alucard touches him, then flinches away. He looks the way he did after that first encounter with Dracula's wards and Lisa's presence. Terrified, but more than that betrayed. ]

You didn't tell me. You knew there was nothing I could do. You knew your father was asking the impossible. You knew that she could have died, and it would be my fault. And you didn't tell me.

[ His tone starts at terror. It moves though fury and sorrow and ends at nothing at all, flat and lifeless. Another cough releases a few more moths as his body tries to turn itself inside out in his desire to be anywhere but right here. ]