[Hector looks past Alucard, as if he expects Isaac to pop out from the treeline and prove him a liar. His rival does not appear. The fairy at his shoulder doesn't whisper to him of things unseen to his human eyes. Hector shakes his head.]

That doesn't make sense. Everything he's done has been in parallel.

[He can't think of a reason Adrian would lie about this, though to be honest, he can barely think at all.]

He wants me to find him. He said I was too weak and pathetic as I was, and that I had to regain my powers so I could face him.

[He clenches his fists. Dracula had given the Wallachians a year before he launched his attack. Did Isaac think to elude him for the same interval?]