[UMMMM. Hector is conspicuously silent in the wake of Alucard's question. It probably would have been smart to let someone know where he was going, if he hadn't been expressly forbidden from going after the Ghost Ship.

He also has little to say in the face of Alucard's frank assessment of the political situation. He's had the same thoughts, privately. Dracula has the tiger by the tail, and he can't let go, and is showing himself less and less inclined to keep a firm hold.]

He... [It's hard to lie to the man's son, who knows him better than Hector could ever hope to. He can't pretend that the situation is not as it is.] ...he has the capacity for greatness. I thought, if I could help him remember that, it might reawaken in him. The rest of the vampires are bloodthirsty sociopaths, but Dracula is different.

[The vampire who had found Hector and mentored him was still there, beneath the depression and ennui. Hector just had not found the catalyst yet to restore him. He had hoped that by removing the Ghost Ship and reaffirming Dracula's complete dominion over the seas, his lord would remember the man he'd once been.]