*Alucard can keep pace probably because he's tall.* Well, I did startle you. I suppose I should have made some kind of noise so not to disturb your work.
*Well, he feels fine so far. If this was some kind of poison, he wonders if it will do anything at all. At the end of his journey in Castlevania, even annoying enemies with a poisonous bite didn't do much in the way of damage.*