[You throw SAND at the part time wolf?! Alucard nearly shifts to bare teeth for that, but he settles for an offended scoff. Good enough, he imagines, because the situation is actually the stupidest he's been in for months. The novelty of it is nice though, a far cry from being in a jail cell for months on end.]

I'll leave your ego be, in spite of that last offering of low hanging fruit. [Alucard inclines his head slightly. Jaskier is right, their paths are crossing more often than not.] Then I will leave you to that. I have some business to attend to myself.

[By that, he means nothing more than running through the cold desert air, embracing the world again. In a blink of an eye, he's a wolf again. That wolf offers a final nod to Jaskier, and then it is off again, paws thundering against the ground.]