Indeed. I don't think he'd be of any help at all in a fight, and he might not be able to control himself not to feed if it were to become traumatic enough.

[Nor could he have necessarily trusted any protection detail. He'd know where their loyalty lay. Not with him or Dorian.]

It's beside the point. She's my childe. An attack on her is an attack on me and will be met accordingly.

[He hasn't walked away from every code he exists by, not by any stretch.]