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Angeles withdrew her hand when it was not taken, but she expected as much from what she had heard of D. She opened the book again and she set it down on the ground. Depicted on it as a black dragon, "Chiru said that the one you love was left behind in the other dimension. This is Andromeda," she touched the picture, "she might be able to help," she looked back up at D, not sure what she was waiting for, dismissal possibly, from what she knew of the hunter that was the most likely thing to happen. If she had blood she would most likely be blushing the way Lilly explained how Angeles idolized D.

Angeles nodded and watched D go, shutting the book and glaring over her shoulder at Alucard, her eyes glowing red again. She slipped the book back into her coat and approached him only to say, "the angel says she's waiting for you outside whenever you're ready to fight her," then walked past him. She met D, that was all she wanted to do. She walked through the rest of the Keep and outside to where Alexandria was waiting and brushed her shoulder.

"Well Alex, I finally met him and he couldn't be in a worse mood. I suppose that's my luck isn't it?" she said and the horse snorted. She looked over at the angel and then got up into the horse's saddle. She lightly kicked the cyborg's sides and the horse walked forward. She reached into her coat again and put a collar around her neck, a moonstone set in a silver poppy upon navy blue velvet. She tapped it lightly and the stone began to glow slightly before she took up the reigns again.

The muscles in Angeles' back tightened and she could not move as her horse froze beneath her. Her eyes were wide, staring forward and her lips twitched until she was able to whisper, "how disappointing," in reference to not getting himself slaughtered by the angel, "leaving soon is in my best interest, as well as for the sake of my health and undead life," Angeles managed to murmur at the powerful aura at her back, "and I knew I would never reach him. I merely wanted to thank him was all. And maybe help him, because I know what it's like," her hands tightened around the reigns, her nails biting into her palm and the fading moonlight glinting off her ring.

She heard the horse hooves as well then finally turned around and looked down at Alucard's body then up at D as him and the parasite spoke. She reached into her saddlebag and pulled out some water and three crimson pills. She slipped off the saddle and walked over to him, kneeling before him and poured some in a glass and dropped the pills in, waiting only a few seconds before the liquid turned red and lifted the glass up, not even daring to smile to the man who was in so much suffering, "here, it's the synthetic kind, I know it's nothing like the real thing, but it's something."

She did not celebrate Alucard's death, if she knew anything about anything, merely chopping his head off was not going to kill him.

"I wasn't kneeling," said Angeles taking a drink of the synthetic blood since D did not accept it, "I just do not have three hands, the ground made it easier to mix," she glared daggers at D's left hand before tilting her head back and finishing the cup before walking over and throwing it back into the saddlebag with the waterskin.

Alucard's voice ran through the air and sent involuntary shudders down Angeles' spine but she otherwise did not react; she knew he wasn't dead after all, "you've been alive a long time then," she said to D, responding to how the synthetic blood no longer sated him.

"And I've had a taste of your sister's... charm, multiply that by how long you must have known her and I can guess what your life with her has been like yes," she did not mount. Not out of some sort of desire to worship D, keeping her head lower than his in some sort of medieval ritual, but from respect for him.

"I doubt animal blood will do you any good, and the last town I passed was several miles back, the next one several miles ahead. So what is your plan?" she looked back over to D through her jade green eyes, "I'd like to help you, vampire hunter D, it is from tales and rumors of you that I decided to become a hunter, and it for that, your courage to do so, that I thank you. I would like to repay you, but I doubt that you will allow me to."

Angeles nodded and got onto the horse after D did and said, "that's what I've been doing, and began to head off in the opposite direction when D's voice caught her and sent a different set of chills down her back. She looked over her shoulder at the receding figure and threw out the images that found their way into her mind and turned her six-legged steed and sent it after D's mount. She easily caught up and lined up beside him and looked back at Lilly running after them.

Angeles looked over D and a small smirk twitched up the corner of her lips before she moved her eyes to his sword, so very different from her weapon, but the scythe was similar. Her mind went back to his words and she felt sorrow over them, but she did not quite believe his last statement, I am not who I used to be.

She looked ahead and held her reigns tightly. That was for sure, the D she knew from rumors, would have left her behind, decided against any company and would have left her alone to do what she wanted. In a way, she liked this D better. Let Lilly ride with him.

"Six legs," said Angeles daring to smile as D pulled out ahead of her, "let's see," she smirked and a competitive glint entered her eye. She struck her spurs against Alexandria who tossed up her head and ran into a gallop, closing the distance between her and D. Her long whit hair nearly blended in with the horse's tail flying out behind her. She stopped her own breathing so that she would not pull back on the reigns instinctively. It took a moment but she finally lined up with D again and turned to look at him.

A smirk revealed a single fang before she leaned forward and took a breath to talk and said to Alexandria, "Let's get 'em," The four front hooves of the horse lifted from the ground and the horse's head lowered as it let out an ethereal neigh ten charged forward, snorting out of its nostrils as it's eyes glowed and eerie red. She glanced back over her shoulder to look at D. Would it be blasphemous to have this sort of fun with the vampire hunter?"

Angeles looked on ahead, squinting her eyes against the wind that was whistling past her pointed ears, a single diamond earring no visible in the lobe of her left ear, glinting in the moonlight. She smiled in good fun and turned to look over her shoulder and gave a yell of surprise, but continued to smile.

She saw the emotion in D's eyes and on his lips and it made her feel so much better. She caught D's words and a proud glint entered her eyes before surprise returned as D began to run ahead. She leaned down against Alexandria, but this was the cyborg's top speed, she could push it no further, and D pulled out ahead.

Angeles shook her head and pressed her face against Alexandria's neck, leaning out of the saddle, now looking at D's back and fluttering cape. She wondered what it would be like to spar with D, even if she new the outcome.

Angeles pulled up beside D, stopping on a dime before urging her horse forward beside his. Her eyes lit up and she smiled despite herself and looked at Alexandria and stroked her neck, "I did. Knowledge is my wealth. I'm not nearly as old as you are, I bet, but in all the years I've lived, I have delved into the world of books. The more I know, the more useful I feel."

She patted Alexandria who snorted, breathing heavily and lowering her head to sniff at the grass, eating some without even stopping.

"Books," she said as if in a daze, "they taught me how to build, fix, create, and live. They taught me the same skills I taught Lilly tonight, and so much more," she looked up at D, "I bet that I'm boring you. Or at least your left hand."