Lucien's Links
It's complicated. Lucien is his descendant, the result of his life with Pearl's original life and the pup that they had had together. But while Aleksander kept track of his descendants, he didn't integrate with them. He didn't *know* them and that means he didn't know anyone in Lucien's bloodline and he doesn't really know Lucien that well. Aleksander will defend him and protect him because of the long, long tie to the past that they have but he's not quite sure what to do with him otherwise - and he really isn't very fond of this obsession of Lucien's either.