It's been two years since I've last seen you, and you dead at that. [Alucard's tone is working to be as calm and as impartial as possible with all of this. He does not doubt for a second that they're going to explode into dramatics at some point. They absolutely will. But they can at least hold off the tide for a few minutes to figure out where things stand.]

I think I can be afforded a few moments of preparation for that.