You weren't specific! And it isn't that gory anyway. Usually I'd take from whatever side isn't that person's dominant, and probably rely on the wrist or elbow where their are veins but they can still function. The neck is no good, and while there is an artery on the thigh, that comes with other complications.

[There's a shrug. Alucard understands all of this as a matter of basic living rather than anything especially unsettling. It is one of the small ways in which he isn't human, and he's accepted that it will always throw some people off.

There's quiet satisfaction at Hilda's declaration. The dhampir's dessert remains untouched until she tries hers, and then he grins into his spoonful before taking a bite.]

That did come out rather well, didn't it? [And if only to play on the joke...] I'm afraid I don't have much of a dowry.