Least I can do. You're- you know. Like this because you're helping me.
[ He looks back at his book. In truth? He's kind of glad to not be reading it anymore. Maybe he should put it back. Books, it turns out, are Upsetting. ]
[ He doesn't know what to do when the humans are asleep. Until now he's been reading, Sypha gets frustrated that he knows so little about humanity when he's trying to make decisions for them. But he doesn't like reading. It was nice at first, but then the books kept being about upsetting things.
He tries, for a while, but then he finds himself putting the book back and hovering over the humans instead. Sypha hates it when he does that. She doesn't like the idea of a vampire watching her sleep.
But if he didn't watch, he wouldn't notice things. Notice how still Alucard is, compared to Sypha. Notice when that stillness is broken by tiny shivers, so small that he wouldn't have picked up on them before his senses were sharpened by the blood.
He knows enough to be aware that it's improper to curl up against a person while they're asleep when he's human-shaped. But dog shaped? That seems normal. A moment's consideration and he's a wolf with dark, shaggy fur, trying to find room to curl up on the Sofa next to Alucard, burying his way between his arms. ]
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[Alucard won't allow fires here, for obvious reasons. This'll do.]
Thank you.
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[ He looks back at his book. In truth? He's kind of glad to not be reading it anymore. Maybe he should put it back. Books, it turns out, are Upsetting. ]
You want me to let you sleep?
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[Alucard sighs, then settles back down onto the sofa. He really ought to sleep, huh?]
I think it would be wise. Wake me if something happens between now and morning.
[With that? He settles back onto the sofa properly, face mushed into the cushiosn and darkness around him. Alucard is so quiet, so still, and....
...asleep.]
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He tries, for a while, but then he finds himself putting the book back and hovering over the humans instead. Sypha hates it when he does that. She doesn't like the idea of a vampire watching her sleep.
But if he didn't watch, he wouldn't notice things. Notice how still Alucard is, compared to Sypha. Notice when that stillness is broken by tiny shivers, so small that he wouldn't have picked up on them before his senses were sharpened by the blood.
He knows enough to be aware that it's improper to curl up against a person while they're asleep when he's human-shaped. But dog shaped? That seems normal. A moment's consideration and he's a wolf with dark, shaggy fur, trying to find room to curl up on the Sofa next to Alucard, burying his way between his arms. ]