[Alucard freezes as the grip tightens. There's an instinct, to lash out, to slash, to struggle, to get away away away before anything else holds him down firmer and with greater designs. A tiny part of him recognizes that it is Sypha.

He extracts his arm with all vampire speed possible, but does only that much.]

Please don't grab me like that.

[It is soft and quick and there's terror under there that once Sypha has memories again, she'll want to unpack. So be it.]

It is normal your first time here. It's...the side effect of this place, and an unpleasant one. But you have to go through it, or else there's no opportunity to reach this place at all.

Creating in this place can't hurt. But it does not have to be done immediately. [In the distance is his Domain. Great black thorns keep rainclouds from spreading elsewhere.]

It's more frightful looking on the outside, I assure you.