"I meant a longer while. Please, let’s stay here. Look, I’ll even eat the soup, all right? And the gelatin and cabbage rolls and every single other peculiar dish. I’ll shake Vlad the Impaler awake myself and bow down in front of him, pledge my allegiance. I’ll do anything," he said, hoping his desperate jokes would lighten the sinister mood. "But  please , let’s at least take a break from stupid and dangerous things for the time being. I can’t risk losing you again. I can’t."