Aries soaked up the comforting words and the soft stroking of his back like a child... It felt nice, warm, and slowly his mind seemed to pack things away as he often did to deal with later. It took a while, but by the time Luca spoke Aries had stopped crying wholly now and nodded against his shoulder. He slowly sat up and looked at the human below him with guilty grey eyes, but eventually, he managed to get up and offer the other a hand as Luca had before. "I can carry you back." He said softly, his voice slightly hoarse, but it was also the first time since he awoke as a vampire all those centuries ago that his throat didn't burn with thirst. He touched his throat softly before dropping his hand and instead looking at the state of the human properly.<br/><br/>He winced as he saw the other's injuries, but once he was up he turned and crouched so the other could get on his back. He may be small, but well-fed he was certain he could carry him without too much trouble. "It will be faster if I carry you back and go find him myself. You should stay there." He said calmly, almost numbly. Right now he wanted nothing more than to sleep, he wanted to pretend this was all a bad dream... His body felt so light, he felt better than he ever had... And yet he also felt so exhausted that were human lives not at risk he would have just curled up in the alley and went to sleep.