Adrian was quiet as Victoria explained the condition of his ankle. He sighed, just his luck really. Had to jump out of an airship that was getting swamped, shatters his ankle, and only lives thanks to the vampiress before him, who was collecting water for him to drink. Made one wonder what things would be like without that Vampire King running everything into the ground for the sake of revenge. He couldn't help but wonder if the Order would be the ones running things into the ground then, and he suspected they would be. Hate did drive people so. She put the options forward, before blaming herself for what happened to that airship and its crew, and he couldn't help but shake his head in disagreement. "You were shot in the leg, by me no less, and dragged onto that ship against your will. That was inviting tragedy, especially since it was obvious we were not the only ones on the hunt at the time. And that was just survival, I wasn't going to hold that room on my own, even if you helped. Jumping was the only option that gave me a snowball's chance in hell of surviving."

Victora offered to escort him to forest's edge, and he tested the weight on the splint, grimacing as he sat back down. No, he decided, that wasn't going to hold up, even using his rifle as a cane. "That isn't going to be feasible, it would probably be evening before I would drag myself back to that nearby town. And the Order is probably sweeping for survivors now, and I'd rather not get picked up just yet. I need to go back and, well, question their logic about opening fire like that. They couldn't know whether the ship was lost yet or not." He knew their tactics, scorched earth, but the loss of an airship was not something to take lightly. They were, after all, expensive as hell. But he stayed put on his rock, for now, he didn't want to risk putting too much work on his ankle, considering when he tried to stand, it nearly gave out with a splint. Yea, she was right, it was completely shattered. Hopefully it won't be a problem after a doctor gets a look at it. But he wasn't going anywhere right now, so he set his rifle on his lap, and started cleaning it, checking the parts to make sure it wasn't too damaged from the night's work.

Victoria looked at him when he explained how it was not her fault but she still felt bad about the while thing that has happened and she just ants to make it better some how. She looked at him and only sighed. "I wish I was not a vampire then this would not have happened because I am different from the other vampires I am not a normal vampire and now a whole bunch of human have been killed because of my kind." She said as she looked at him and watched him try to stand but it was no good and she knew it just from when she touched his ankle it did not feel right with the bone structure in the ankle. And she could tell that it was painful but thought that he hide it pretty well.

"Sorry if the splint is not that good it is just a basic splint to help keep it in place for now." Victoria said to him as she did a double look at the splint and saw what she tied it with was not holding so she ripped the bottom of her dress into long strips and used it to tie the splint better so it would not move so much and for other reasons. Once she did that she listened to him. "Hmm I guess it would be best to lay low for a few days but are you going to be fine for a few days without having it properly looked at ?" She asked as she looked at him and watched him clean his gun which she thought looked interesting for she never seen anything like it before.

Adrian shrugged when she mentioned not wanting to be a vampire, considering it was more and more clear it wasn't her choice, even if he had totally thought she was lying earlier. "Seems some things we can't control, might as well do what you can with it. People die every day, from mundane and not so mundane things. It can't really be helped, and if it wasn't me, some other poor sods would be dead, and you wouldn't be sitting here regretting it." She couldn't control her kin creatures, and hell, he didn't really choose to be a slayer because he woke up one day and went 'Hey, lets kill vampires today!'. No, that was a longer story he wasn't going to share unless really prompted about. And he had to hide that kind of pain, the Order didn't take kindly to weakness, or displays of weakness. It meant such things would happen in the face of vampires, and that would be death, in their minds, and failure, more importantly.

"Its the best I could have expected out of the circumstances. You have my thanks on it, should keep it mostly together." He watched her retie it with strips of her own clothing, commonplace battlefield tactic there, so it wasn't foreign to see. But he didn't expect her to do so, and he looked back at his rifle, cleaning out the bore of it, one of the bolts sitting by his side just in case. When she asked about the few days complicating things, he shrugged. "It probably will make things worse, but I'm too damn slow right now to make it anywhere on my own. We are better off at night, and things need to settle down a bit first. Both the bloodsuckers and Order hunters. Itchy trigger fingered morons..." She was eyeing his rifle, and that got a chuckle out of him, opening the break action up to clean the other half of the barrel. "Oddly designed, isn't she? Break action rifles ain't commonplace, I grant you that. Let alone ones that fire bolts, but thats the trick. They compensate, expecting a rifle shot, and get a crossbow bolt instead. Each round is designed to crystallize the vampire blood, lethal in the torso obviously." He casually explained the tool, having been needed to countless times, and saw it no more a weapon than a hammer or spade, just another tool to be used.

Victoria looked at him as Adrian looked at him as he explained about how things are just not fair and how things can lead to stuff that they sometimes do not accept. "I wish I could remember how I became a vampire and who I was back then so much of my past is nothing but a big fuzz nothing is clear even to this day nothing is clear all I can remember is that my name is Victoria that is it." she said to him as she looked at the trees before looking down and sighing a little. "But I guess you are right there are things out there that we can not control things that are just outside our abilities and power but I still wish I was not a vampire at times. Victoria said being honest with that fact and looked at him.

She looked at him as he cleaned his rifle and listen to him about her making a splint for him. "I used to watch hikers who come through the forest and I studied how to make a splint and practice making one to pass the time glad it came in handy." She said to him as she looked at him while siting on the ground in front of him with her ripped up dress but she could aways get a new one when ever she want. She listened as he explained it would not be safe to go out because of all the craziness that has happened from the vampire attacks. "That make sense the town I was talking about we can go at night the doctor there does night calls so maybe at night I can get you there so he can properly take care of your leg so it will heal properly." She said to him as she listen to him explain about the bolts and the interesting design about it and she thought how it was able to injure her and kill the other vampires and she found it really interesting to listen about and learn a little bit about it. Victoria was really fascinated at how it killed her kind by crystalizing the vampires blood and how lethal it was especially once it his the torso of the vampire. "Wow now that is amazing who knew you guys have made amazing weapons to take down my kind hopefully its enough to stop the vampire king the last thing I remember hearing was that he was taking over a lot of factories." She said for she had just remember that.

Adrian listened to the Vampiress Victoria speak, and as she spoke, he finished up with his rifle, letting it rest in his lap while she finished speaking her bit, and he shrugged a bit. "I'm not really prepared to discuss my past with vampire kind, they ended my service in the Commonwealth Army, that should suffice for the moment. I can't speak on not knowing your past, but it sounds like a terrible burden, to put it mildly." Not knowing where one came from was practically as bad, if not worse, than not knowing where one was going. They went hand in hand, so it was simple enough to see how not knowing one could make the other difficult. "I imagine you have at least attempted to figure out your past at some point or another?"

Adrian listened to her response to his rifle, how it was fascinating and impressive, and Adrian nodded, although he did not necessarily wish such weapons needed to exist. But they did, so here he carried one of the finer examples of such tools. "Aye, its only one part of a new generation of weapons brought on by this revolution of Steam. I do not know how effective it shall be against your King, the rounds are based on the blood of the vampire itself, and it might require a more potent sample to ruin a more potent being, such as the King." Her talk of the doctor and his night hours was a quiet relief, if a small one at the moment, and he nodded while drawing his revolver, breaking it open to make sure everything worked properly with it as well. "That is good to hear, I can feel my leg just isn't right, even if I couldn't tell otherwise. Apologies about your dress, by the way, didn't intend to see it ruined." He gave her a chance to respond in kind, keeping the tidbit about the factories in mind, clearly thinking about such things now, debating how it was probably going to be some place he paid a visit to, in time, when he was recovered more thoroughly.

Victoria sat there looking at him as he talked to her baout not disccusing his past with her which she did not mind after all they were techincally enemies and she could not blame him if he thought she was plotting something. Even though she was not, she only wanted to help and for a while not be alone like she has been for years. When he asked if she made attempts to regain her memories she nodded. "I have multiple times. I asked vampires that were older them or were there before I was turned but they never told me all I can fully remember was the sun touching my skin and the smell of salt water in the wind." he regained the memories once she smelled Salt water one day. "I wish I could remember fully it was like once I was awoken as a vampire I could not remeber who I was accept all I know is my name is Victoria because that is what the vampire king called me when I awoken." Victoria said to him as she sat there not mind telling him this stuff for some odd reason.

She then listened to him explain more about his weapon but when he brought up needing the vampire kings blood she looked at him. [/B]"Would my blood work because from what I am told the vampire king only turned me the other ones were turned by the other vampires so wouldn't his blood be in me."[/B] She suggested to him for she never really figured out the whole transformation process to become a vampire. When he apologized about her dress she only shook her head before looking at him with a small smile. "A dress can be replaced anytime I want to replace it but you leg if you lose it...it will never come back or if it heals worng they might have to do more crazy stuff." Victoria explained to him as she sat there before deciding to stand and gather more wood for a fire so they could stay warm until night time arrive again which was not for a few hours.