CCCXXXIII.

[dark_butler]

Alucard, I won't be home for a while. Perhaps you should stay with Arthur for a time. Please tend to Pup.

[ooc: Explanation for where he is. More explanation for why the butler did it.]

Comments

[banditfox]

Walter?

[dark_butler]

The same.

[banditfox]

I don't suppose you're in the mood to offer an explanation of what may detain you long enough that Pup needs looking after.

[dark_butler]

I have been detained.

[banditfox]

On what grounds?

[dark_butler]

Bad diet.

[banditfox]

Foolish.

[dark_butler]

That is hardly the first or last such rebuke I shall hear.

[banditfox]

I don't doubt that, and I hope you recognize the validity of each one.

[dark_butler]

And as we all know, repetition increases receptiveness.

[banditfox]

On occasion it increases mulishness.

[dark_butler]

That is a thought that bears keen consideration.

[banditfox]

Don't start now, Walter. It's a little late to justify your behavior if your diet was truly so unhealthy as to require intervention.

[dark_butler]

Start what, Kurama? I have not argued the merits, merely pointed out that repetition may not do anyone's cause justice.

[banditfox]

How bad is it?

[dark_butler]

I should expect that they will attempt to lay between five and ten deaths at my feet.