[Prague has been good. Two years in, and there are routines. A sense of normalcy. (In so much as a city that thinks some politics can be solved with tossing someone out a window is normal.) The castle hasn't moved in two years save for the odd week-long get away. The three of them are only ever there on the weekends otherwise, unless there is an emergency demand for medical supplies.
(No one has looked twice at the success rate of the clinic. It is only known that the woman there is skilled and she only demands payment from those who can afford it, so that those who can't can receive treatment. Alucard smiled thinly the first time he heard someone in a crowd speak of the concept and call it Christian charity.)
Alucard's place, place as Adrian and not Alucard, is either as a large wolf watching his mother work or else with the printers He proof reads drafts before anything gets type set, he double checks pages for errors and makes corrections, he comes home with ink smudged on his hands and on his face and he grumbles only when his mother tries to rub away all of it with her thumb. He talks of work generally, and of the more alarming things when he must. There is a renewed interest in witches starting to bloom, and safety is all he and his father think about most days.
It's a castle weekend again. The only time that either one of them really let Lisa alone, because she is safe within the walls there. Both of them are paranoid, will be until the natural end of her life. (No one has started to think about what will happen after that.) It's night, night and he and his father have been out and considering where the castle might go next when the weigh station they have been at for the past two years must finally be left behind. Quiet and with a full moon overhead and--
--and then Alucard is bursting through the front doors of the castle, shifting from wolf form to human as he yells for his mother.]
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(No one has looked twice at the success rate of the clinic. It is only known that the woman there is skilled and she only demands payment from those who can afford it, so that those who can't can receive treatment. Alucard smiled thinly the first time he heard someone in a crowd speak of the concept and call it Christian charity.)
Alucard's place, place as Adrian and not Alucard, is either as a large wolf watching his mother work or else with the printers He proof reads drafts before anything gets type set, he double checks pages for errors and makes corrections, he comes home with ink smudged on his hands and on his face and he grumbles only when his mother tries to rub away all of it with her thumb. He talks of work generally, and of the more alarming things when he must. There is a renewed interest in witches starting to bloom, and safety is all he and his father think about most days.
It's a castle weekend again. The only time that either one of them really let Lisa alone, because she is safe within the walls there. Both of them are paranoid, will be until the natural end of her life. (No one has started to think about what will happen after that.) It's night, night and he and his father have been out and considering where the castle might go next when the weigh station they have been at for the past two years must finally be left behind. Quiet and with a full moon overhead and--
--and then Alucard is bursting through the front doors of the castle, shifting from wolf form to human as he yells for his mother.]
We need to go to the castle's engine room! Now!