"Oh! Okay!!"

"Oh! Okay!!"

She's going to duck under the water at this point and hide from the embarrassment.

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"That's good!"

She watches as his face turns red as well and finally something clicks into place in her mind.

"Um.. DJ... How hot exactly.. is the water??"

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"It's a state in the northeast of the United States. I take it you don't mean Nevada the state if you don't know where Vermont is." What she says is probably true unless he learned about different things in school than she did. But she doesn't want to assume that he's uneducated and offend him.

She signals at the dogs to walk in front of them, having them act as guard dogs in case anyone were to try to do either of them any harm. "If you need to stop and rest at any point let me know, okay?"

Jade begins heading towards the bus bench. "I told you my name but you never told me yours." She makes the statement aloud but doesn't say anything else about it. It's up to him if he wants to share his name or not.

Her mind does drift a little to when she was in a similar situation to this where she wished someone had come found her after Lillith had attacked her. Instead, she had been left face down on the concrete, with three large gashes across her back and left to bleed out. A single bark from Galen brings her focus back to the present.

Jade swears quietly under her breath. "Okay." She knows she shouldn't move him without first figuring out what's broken. She knows it has to at least be something internal if he's coughing up blood. She has personal experience with internal injuries and knows that laying on them certainly doesn't help either.

"Let's at least get you off the ground for now and we can go from there. I'm pretty sure you broke a rib since you're coughing up blood." She moves closer to him in order to help him get up. "Do you think you can at least put your arm over my shoulders and then lean on me? I'll be able to take your weight and still help you get up. I'm stronger than I look."

She smiles at him. "No problem." She carefully puts one arm behind him, trying to be mindful of any injuries he has while also steadying him at the same time. After getting him up off the ground she doesn't move, waiting for him to adjust while she looks around for someplace she can tend to his injuries.

She sees a bus bench a few feet away from them. She's about to ask if he's okay to move more when he coughs again. Her gaze shifts to him immediately, worried that he's more hurt that she had previously thought, but there's no blood this time.

"This is Vermont. I take it you've never been here before? Where are you from?" She's trying to make idle conversation, to distract him from some of the pain. "I'd like to get you over to that bus bench over there, do you think you can make it?" She gestures over to it with her free hand.

Jade swears quietly under her breath. "Okay." She knows she shouldn't move him without first figuring out what's broken. She knows it has to at least be something internal if he's coughing up blood. She has personal experience with internal injuries and knows that laying on them certainly doesn't help either.

"Let's at least get you off the ground for now and we can go from there. I'm pretty sure you broke a rib since you're coughing up blood." She moves closer to him in order to help him get up. "Do you think you can at least put your arm over my shoulders and then lean on me? I'll be able to take your weight and still help you get up. I'm stronger than I look."

Jade grins, climbing out of the pool so she can join him.

"Maybe. Maybe not. But I bet it would still feel better regardless."

Her eyes widen when he says that this used to be his home island. "Really?! This was your home at one point?? So there's a lot more here than I've seen so far?? So like a safe haven of sorts??"

In her excitement about learning that this place was an island and not a large mansion on a huge plot of land, she loses her footing. She had gotten close enough to DJ that she reflexively grabbed to him arm to keep from falling down.

Once she regains her balance she quickly lets go of his arm, her face beat red. "Sorry!! I'm sorry!!"

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