[Using the back alley ways to return to the graveyard is the clearest thought Alucard's had since he realized how deeply vulnerable this matter leaves him. No one has seen the worst of him and what he's done yet, but it feels like a matter of time. He might hope it is a friendlier face that sees the moment he dreads most, but better if no one sees him at all.
He isn't paying attention to anything but his own path. His own path and then a flash of something sharp that has him hissing like Dracula and ready to defend against an attack. But then the attack comes in the wrong form, and the recoiling sends Alucard back all too literally against the wall. Not again. Not fucking again.
What flashes past his eyes feels like laying eyes upon an illumination in one of his father's books. Something familiar, but the thundering of hooves, the aggression and determination, that's new. Raw. Too real, and his instinct upon laying eyes at a savage procession is to run, run, run until the alley comes back into focus.
It is that moment that he realizes Ciri has grabbed onto him. There's no steadiness in Alucard, meaning they both go collapsing onto the ground, the dhampir acting as a cushion for Ciri.
The nausea does not stop him from looking wild eyed and mortified. Trying to back up even further, even if Ciri's still using him to get herself back to rights.]
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He isn't paying attention to anything but his own path. His own path and then a flash of something sharp that has him hissing like Dracula and ready to defend against an attack. But then the attack comes in the wrong form, and the recoiling sends Alucard back all too literally against the wall. Not again. Not fucking again.
What flashes past his eyes feels like laying eyes upon an illumination in one of his father's books. Something familiar, but the thundering of hooves, the aggression and determination, that's new. Raw. Too real, and his instinct upon laying eyes at a savage procession is to run, run, run until the alley comes back into focus.
It is that moment that he realizes Ciri has grabbed onto him. There's no steadiness in Alucard, meaning they both go collapsing onto the ground, the dhampir acting as a cushion for Ciri.
The nausea does not stop him from looking wild eyed and mortified. Trying to back up even further, even if Ciri's still using him to get herself back to rights.]