[You take your cock out around a wolf, there's no telling where the discussion will go.

Alucard's deathly serious in the glance Jaskier gets from that initial reaction. Reproachful, but not offended by the reaction. He has no reason to know or understand that this has been done before, or any of the particular context.

Why is a fair question. The dhampir closes his eyes as a long sigh escapes him, not wanting to dwell on the matter but well aware that the bard will take nothing short of the truth.] Between the past...however many months I have been here and circumstances back home, I am tired.

[If Hector was around, maybe the necromancer would clock the tone. Dracula spoke in similar ones to his human generals before, when the red hot fury over Lisa's murder passed into a more muted grief, but still a murderous one.]

I would like extended time to rest before I deal with any of it.