I know you're less fond of the starkness of it than I am.

[He's been ... more likely to try and cater to Alucard lately, given everything that's happened to the dhampir.

He's told exactly nobody about the little run-in he'd had with Asra at the party partly because of that, but partly because it seemed so -- odd.]

And as long as you're there, it doesn't matter where we are.