I spent far too much of my childhood under the thumb of enforcers to gain any satisfaction from a state-sponsored execution.

[Though he doesn't need to tell Alucard that. It was difficult, however, to ignore the intense feeling of dread in the pit of his stomach after those who chose to departed for the execution. Viktor doesn't want to know what happened or how they did it, but he does know, inherently, that it must have been upsetting.

Even for someone like Alucard, who has experienced horrors that Viktor can't begin to imagine. It feels almost wrong and strange, to go right to talk of his silly decoration, but he obliges, if only because he's not really sure how to ask if Alucard is okay.]

I thought we could use a bit of levity.