[open] But I know I'll land here again

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Character(s): Alucard + Open
Status: Open
Location(s): Krimnos -> Home in the mountains
Date(s) Start of April -> Einjar Expedition II, Electric Boogaloo
About: General catch all log
Warnings: To be added



Note: Castle is not representative of Usir canon castle, just roll with me on this

[Krimnos is mostly for picking up supplies these days, then departing for home. Alucard's affection for the city has grown slightly, such as it is. Any place that encourages such dedication to technological development has earned that much, just as it has focused it's efforts on exploration and understanding. Einjar was proof of that. But he doesn't linger in the city, not when home is two days away.

Those looking for him there are most likely to find him in market spaces, or else in the part of the city dedicated to invention. He does little but observe in the latter space.

On the road between home and Krimnos, Alucard is all too keenly aware of the world around him. There is, of course, the little hamlet that marks the half-way point between home and the city, and he rests there between his trips. With warmer evenings out, he takes advantage of the one inn that boasts of a patio for evening meals, and can be found there with food remaining on his plate and a glass of probably too-dark wine in hand, barely drunk. For all the world, they look closer to props that let him settle in for a time, taking in the world around him.

Home is still a crumbling castle, whose remaining spire still reaches up towards the heavens. It is aged, save for the new lock on the door that makes it clear that this long thought cursed relic is inhabited by the living.]

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[Returning for Krimnos meant picking up both supplies and special orders, such as they were and such as could be afforded at the moment. There were precious few requirements now, what with Trevor being the type to eschew furniture all together and Alucard trying to learn basic woodworking for the time being. But there was one or two items that, with current arrangements, still had to be bought. Alucard had received word that the order was in, and thus it was off to the city proper to retrieve it.

Here, now, it is just before dusk. This month means that the sun stays overhead for longer, and that it is possible to walk later at night. Staying in the same stop over village as he and Trevor have become accustomed to for the trip, Alucard walks the streets quietly, then out along the road to examine the path that they will be taking come morning. It is a fair thing to scout ahead, what with the more dangerous flowers of the Bloom a potential trip hazard.

Ellis is with him, as she always is, bounding ahead just a little. Her nose is far more reliable for picking out concerning scents, but it is the way her whole body perks suddenly that gives Alucard pause.]

Someone you recognize?

For Trevor

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[Alucard knows this is probably the wrong thing to do, or at least that it is a risk. He knows the goliath, knows that things like gift giving can be something that quickly turns sour. But their current arrangement seems to be a permenant one, and there's no comfort to be had sleeping on a stone floor. Even if one's used to it. Even if there will be a fuss. It is unfair and incorrect for Alucard to have come to use the Belmont as a mattress, and to give the Belmont no comfort in return.

So he ordered a rug. One big enough for Trevor to sleep on and then some, because a bed would never be used. And he's made Trevor help carry it back all the way from Krimnos, but he's hardly said a word about what it is or where it is to go. There have been other things to discuss (some happy things, like the fact someone has begun to put a great number of books into a portable library).

Now is the awkward part. They're walking through the castle corridors with the giant rolled up rug, and Alucard's turned into the room that has become theirs.]

If you could unroll it by the fireplace, please?

krimnos

[redwhaling]

[ Krimnos. Billie hasn't had a chance to step foot in this city in over a hundred years and she's finally been given a reason to, even if it did mean hauling a dragon along with her. A dragon that is, thankfully, stuffed full of food and being babysat at an inn by an overbearing tern right now. It's weird to think along the lines of 'finally, a few hours without the kid' but here she is, doing just that...

But more importantly, she's also tracking down knights of Krimnos to harass, which inevitably brings her to Tinkertown, familiar red coat — if cleaner from what it was in the pit — and all. More than a few of the knights are also inventors in their own right, considering the city's own interests. It'll just be by luck alone that she tracks down a pair of them lingering near where Alucard is observing from.

Overall, the conversation isn't going too well. The knights seem somewhat offended that they're being bothered at all. ]

Come on, I just need you to think back a few years. [ She still tries. ] They ditched Krimnos, anyway, so what would you be protecting?

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[Sypha's presence in the castle has stirred up many emotions for all involved. The anger of her being dragged back, the relief in seeing her face, the sheer awkwardness of the fact that Alucard and Trevor had started at...something that might in the eyes of others be an actual relationship that came from having to look after each other in Sypha's absence. In all of that though, two things were clear.

The first? Nothing was happening to Sypha if the other two could help it. That meant if they weren't in the room with her, an animus likely was. The second was that their room was her room too for as long as she wanted it that way.

But joy of reunions wear out, eventually. There are parts of reawakening that need far more adjusting to, and for that there is no quick and easy fix, no words to be vowed to make the problem go away. There is only space, and there is only time.

Alucard's outside at the moment, clearing overgrowth from the path that leads up to the castle itself. With the spring comes all the pesky plants and vines, and he'll not have any of the three of them get injured simply walking up to the house.]