[ it unsettles him, to know they can do it to him. to know they can make other vampires entirely human as well, but didn't do that to him. why the difference? perhaps he'll never understand. he wants to, in order to usurp it. the thought of them changing their minds though, and making him human... that worries him. frightens him, to an extent. ]

Is what one wants always what they deserve? Surely not.

[ alucard and anderson really are so similar, aren't they? giving up their personhood and all.

if only there had been mercy for alucard before it was too late. he hangs on anderson's promise, though he still doesn't believe it will work.

the coffee startles him but he grasps it, taking a drink as anderson speaks and shrugging. ]

Adrian is... well, not my son, but in another world he would be. The others are from the same world as him, and know a Dracula just as terrible as me. Perhaps you're right, though. The similarity in timeline, their first-hand experience with someone like me, might help.

I'll probably keep it from Sypha that I impaled people while we were in that camp, though. Probably for the best she doesn't know.