[ It's honestly mostly true. Nightmares aside, tonight has been his only truly sleepless night since they first got the message. For all the parts of him that are self-destructive, his concern takes the form of something more constructive. Eating, sleeping- he doesn't discard them the way that Sypha does when she works herself to a thread, he just sees them as tools that he needs as much as he does his whip.
His first reaction is to play off his own injuries. They're insubstantial enough to be nothing compared to Alucard's, after all, and it's ridiculous that the man should be concerned about him at a time like this. More than that, Alucard needs to feed. And Alucard is a stupid noble piece of shit who won't do that if he thinks there's any chance at all that he's in any less than perfect condition.
But then, that's also a decent reason to be honest. Because if he gives the man the slightest inkling that he's hiding something, then this is going to become vastly more difficult. ]
Bruised ribs, maybe fractured. Hit by a few more swords than I'd like. Got a pair of teeth in my arm- doubt they wanted to turn me, but I'll need you to be on alert for the smell of bad blood. Nothing worse than my average night of drinking.
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[ It's honestly mostly true. Nightmares aside, tonight has been his only truly sleepless night since they first got the message. For all the parts of him that are self-destructive, his concern takes the form of something more constructive. Eating, sleeping- he doesn't discard them the way that Sypha does when she works herself to a thread, he just sees them as tools that he needs as much as he does his whip.
His first reaction is to play off his own injuries. They're insubstantial enough to be nothing compared to Alucard's, after all, and it's ridiculous that the man should be concerned about him at a time like this. More than that, Alucard needs to feed. And Alucard is a stupid noble piece of shit who won't do that if he thinks there's any chance at all that he's in any less than perfect condition.
But then, that's also a decent reason to be honest. Because if he gives the man the slightest inkling that he's hiding something, then this is going to become vastly more difficult. ]
Bruised ribs, maybe fractured. Hit by a few more swords than I'd like. Got a pair of teeth in my arm- doubt they wanted to turn me, but I'll need you to be on alert for the smell of bad blood. Nothing worse than my average night of drinking.