“No, no,” with illustrative gesturing, as they sit down, Sol's shaking his head. “There are other cities that take people, like this; I met Sir Integra in another one. She'd come through with Alucard, she was angling to build a new organization from the ground up; I told her when she had something, I was good for it. Did some recruiting off my own back before she even started paying me.”

He thinks of Wesley, for a moment.

“Vanished from Bete Noire, back where I came from-- for months, me and Liesl back in Baltimore. Then Baedal, and I picked up with Hellsing where I left off.”

Seems to be a pattern, since he's done exactly the same thing for the second time now.