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That's even better. All the more incentive for you to keep it.

[Okay, yes, she definitely isn't going to say no, she isn't sharing a bed with him.]

Anyway. No, I don't know how this thing turned on. It did it earlier, too.

[She frowns.]

The boy on the other side said something about butt dialing, but I think that's slang for something I don't have context for.

Hm. So you probably just brushed the thing up against....another surface and it rang me by accident?

[He shrugs.]

I don't use or much like these things. I suppose just be careful of where you have it on your person.

I suppose that is what happened.

[Ugh. Machines.]

I don't like them either. Probably even less than you because they're so unfamiliar.

You...grew up around machines, didn't you?

I did, yes. But they were never as small as the ones they have here.

Yeah? But they could do the same things, right?

[She has no idea how machines work.]

Actually, I don't believe they could do this. I'm sure that whenever we're home it will be perfectly possible to approach the idea, as they operate similar to the viewing mirror in the Belmont Hold but--

Well, that's magic, after all. This is both.

It is. I think it might be worth trying. I...would like to stay in touch, you know.

--In all honesty, I think I'd just prefer if you were both with me. I don't wish to return to that level of solitude.

After...everything. Honestly?

Fuck the castle. Fuck the hold.

You should come with us.

Sypha, I can't let any of that stuff fall into the wrong hands. You know that.

And I like being in a home with you both.

I know. I just...I don't know.

[She breaks off, not sure.]

We can figure it out. You won't be alone. You're too important to me and to him.

[Alucard sighs. This wasn't the conversation he expected to be having right now.]

I know. Maybe if we can unbreak the castle? Store it somewhere safe and remote, then I can travel with you both.

[Her either.]

That! Yes, let's do that.

[She's sure they can do that.]

...Sorry I broke it, by the way.

[Is this an admission of guilt? Yes. Maybe.]

--It was what had to be done at the time.

[Look. He'll not even be a dick about it. Instead he'll just smile, a little sad and awkward about the whole thing.]

We'll find a way to make it move again. New research project.

Yes. Definitely. After...we get done saving this world.

[Let her have this, too.]

Or maybe we'll get sent back early, hm?

[He'd really rather that, in truth.]

Maybe...

[She hopes not. Sorry, Alucard.]

So long as I get sent with you, it doesn't matter in the end. I don't want us split up.

...You two shouldn't leave then. When we get home and you're preparing to depart so you can pass what's happened along to your people.

I'll have to find a way to contact them.

They...need to know, of course.

[That's the rub.]

...perhaps I could convince them to come. There's so much contained in the Hold's library.

[Alucard pauses, considering the idea. And the reaction? Slowly, his face lights up in approval.]

I think we can make that work.

There is certainly room!

[And then, nobody has to be alone.]

Then that is step one when we return home.

Step two. Because, of course, step one is finding the biggest bed and flopping down in it.

You're going to have to settle for second biggest. My parents had the largest, obviously.

Fine, fine...second biggest it is.

[So long as she gets her boys, she's not really fussed.]

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