Humanity can be trusted with it in time, in accordance with my mother's wishes. All the night things can already achieve such things if they have the time and inclination. They have all the time in the world to reach and then superseded these discoveries if they ever desired to do so.

[The undercurrent being clear: they don't want to. And in truth, Alucard is fine with that. It limits the damage that can be done, and that? That is a very good thing indeed.

His face has remained cold as stone throughout all of this, and that doesn't change as he crouches downward, offering one hand out to Cesar. The little thing needs to get all the emotion out already, and a belly rub would probably assist in this.

Moreover, and much more importantly, it frames this as a conversation, not the interrogation that he intends it to be in the most subtle way that Alucard can manage. He's never been one for subtle.]

Have you been followed, forgemaster?

[Which all to say that Hector definitely isn't getting out quickly.]