[ The implications are not difficult to pull apart. For awhile, he's quiet: not ignoring it, just considering what he wants to say. If not for the circumstances of their imprisonment, he knows they'd either have never crossed paths or would've known to circle each other. A contract on a vampire of Alucard's calibre is akin to a contract on a dragon: the risk is almost never worth the coin on offer. He'd have likely steered clear. Chosen a more practical hunt.

It's only here that he's gotten to know the vampire. He can acknowledge he doesn't dislike what's there. Alucard's flair for drama aside (and isn't Geralt long used to that), he seems largely interested in keeping to himself.

Besides. Geralt does owe him, somewhat, for the tunnels. ]

I'm not asking you to trust me. And I have no promises of reassurance I care to make. But I can tell you I have better concerns than a vampire whose largest act of menace has been chronic pacing.