With no encouragement from you, I’m sure.

[Hector will bet good money Alucard was egging her on with hearts in his eyes the whole time.]

And yes. I was mostly settled by the time your father found me. I wandered in my youth, after I left home.

[That year between meeting Dracula and being called to serve him, he’d stayed in one place so Dracula would know where to find him. Of course, he’d been hoping for an invitation to come study in Dracula’s great library, not fight his war, but he had been so eager to do anything the vampire had asked him.]