[Hector nods, to the offer of a sunset date and to Jaskier's question.]

I was with Dracula for a year, serving as one of his generals, then... a few months, involuntarily, with another vampire lord and her sisters.

[He hasn't talked about that with anyone. Alucard doesn't know where he ended up; he'd never asked, and Hector never volunteered that information. He shrugs, downplaying the fact that he was enslaved and magically bound.]

It wasn't my smartest decision, allying with them. Any of them.

[And now, time to deflect.]

How did you get in with Geralt? He doesn't seem like a patron of the arts.