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The wine had long since lost its chill, but Alucard couldn't bring himself to care. He sprawled in his father's ancient chair. His chair now, he supposed, though thinking that sent a fresh wave of grief through his chest. The crystal glass dangled from his long fingers, threatening to slip from his grasp and shatter on the expensive carpet below. Not that it mattered. Nothing really mattered anymore.

His golden eyes drifted to the crude dolls propped on his desk. Trevor and Sypha stared back with their button eyes, silent witnesses to his slow descent into madness. He'd crafted them during one particularly dark night, when the silence of the castle had pressed against his ears until he thought he might scream. The stitches were clumsy; he was better suited to wielding swords than needle and thread, but they were company. Sort of. If you squinted. And were possibly insane.

"This is what I've become," he murmured, his accent thick with self-loathing. "The son of Dracula, reduced to playing with dolls and talking to himself."

The knock that suddenly echoed through the castle's halls was so unexpected that he actually jumped, spilling wine across his white shirt. For a moment, he simply stared at the crimson stain spreading across the expensive fabric, wondering if he'd finally cracked completely. But no – there it was again, more insistent this time.

A visitor. Here. At Dracula's castle. The absurdity of it almost made him laugh again.

His boots echoed through the silence against marble as he descended the grand staircase. The massive door responded to his will with a groan of ancient hinges. And outside stood a person. A human, by the looks of it, not some night creature that learned to knock.

"Good afternoon," he managed, his cultured voice rougher than usual from disuse. The sun hung low and heavy in the sky, painting the clouds in shades that reminded him uncomfortably of the night he'd killed his father. "You are either exceptionally brave or exceptionally lost to come calling at this particular door.”