[He tries to be matter of fact about this. Being home it’s...he’s not more open. Just calmer. More willing to try and respond to what kindness has been shown, because at least here, home, he’s safe as he’s ever been.
It doesn’t stop the lump in his throat.]
After...everything [you deprived me of my father], I was out in the wilderness. Couldn’t find the castle. So she found me instead, and I kicked and screamed and bit all the way back to Styria. Held me long enough to declare her a guardian, then wanted my death to be slow so she could say it was grief. Or illness. The poor constitution of a half-breed.
[Alucard spits the last word out.]
I was ten. I sat there calculating how much I could manage as I was wasting away. Escaped in the daylight by good fortune and found myself a river. Floated down it, covered my wolf-form in mud, and tried to at least get away from her.
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[He tries to be matter of fact about this. Being home it’s...he’s not more open. Just calmer. More willing to try and respond to what kindness has been shown, because at least here, home, he’s safe as he’s ever been.
It doesn’t stop the lump in his throat.]
After...everything [you deprived me of my father], I was out in the wilderness. Couldn’t find the castle. So she found me instead, and I kicked and screamed and bit all the way back to Styria. Held me long enough to declare her a guardian, then wanted my death to be slow so she could say it was grief. Or illness. The poor constitution of a half-breed.
[Alucard spits the last word out.]
I was ten. I sat there calculating how much I could manage as I was wasting away. Escaped in the daylight by good fortune and found myself a river. Floated down it, covered my wolf-form in mud, and tried to at least get away from her.