[... Okay, note taken: make Alucard open all these bloody things. She takes the bag and pops a few corn chips into her mouth before she says anything else. The sound she makes seems to say they taste okay but probably not worth the trouble of scavenging them in the first place.]

This is just the beginning I'll wager. If there are anything like the royals they don't seem interested in poking out their heads right away. Likely for good reason.

[Maria plops down on the end of one of the beds. Alucard might be far more cautious than she is outwardly but Maria is simply cautious internally. There's a tight wall around her where there never was in the past, erected through loss and looking too far into the darker depths of her own abilities. If she's scared of anything anymore it's the havoc her own emotions can play on her magic and not whatever hoodlums or creatures can come out of the dark here and now.

She crunches through a few more chips before she swallows and gives a long sigh.]

I assume you came from the same place I did? That big yard of metal and whatnot.

[The scrapyard with all the cars is what she means.]