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Again his dark red eyes were afixed on the sky above. It wasn't until she mentioned her own family that he finally tore his gaze away and looked over towards her. She was fiddling with that blue pendant of hers; something he noticed she did now and then though he didn't think anything of it.

"Must be nice..." he mused quietly. Blade wasn't just referring to having a sibling, but he noticed that her words were within the present tense, meaning this brother of hers was still alive. It aroused a few new questions in his mind, but he held them back for now.

As things fell silent once more, Blade's attention shifted back to the stars for the time being. He didn't look back at her until he heard her hiss in pain and mention that the food was done.

"Are you alright?" he asked as he got up from the tree so that he could get his dinner. The thief seated himself before the fire, enjoying the warmth it gave before carefully taking his rabbit and beginning to eat it. It was hot, but he at least had a little resistance to heat thanks to both his esper and his natural fire magic abilities.

"Thanks for dinner."

After swallowing a bit of meat, Blade grinned at Isis, "You could have asked me first."

Around that time, Vol had finished chewing on the mossy stone and he was now curled up comfortably and resting without paying much heed to the humanoids near him. The Maonui was pretty tired from today's travels so he just wanted to relax after having his meal.

Noticing that she was looking up at the sky, the thief found his gaze drifting upwards as well. In a sense it was habit of his to be stargazing. It was calming to some extent, though at the same time it usually put him in somewhat of a reflective and sometimes even in a somber one. Right now it was more of the former than the latter feeling for him.

Pausing from his meal as she spoke up again, Blade looked over at her from across the campfire. There was that topic again, though he wasn't too surprised. Considering how she acted before regarding it, the incident was bound to be brought up sooner or later.

"Yeah... what about it?" he replied. He was rather curious as to what she wanted to know about it or how exactly she was involved.

When it was brought up again, Vol cracked open an eye to look at the two. He was somewhat interested as well though he didn't comment on anything. For now he was content with just listening in on the conversation.

As she went on to elaborate, Blade listened and watched her carefully. He was surprised to hear that the family involved was her own, seeing how he thought there were no survivors from the incident. It just showed that sometimes things heard by mouth aren't the most reliable sources of information. The story continued and he remained silent throughout the entire thing. It was certainly a tragic tale, and it showed why she was so bent on revenge. Still, despite what had happened, his stance on vengeance was the same.

"I'm sorry for your loss," he said quietly once she had finished speaking. It was obvious that it was difficult for her to be talking about it, though he had to wonder why she even told him everything when not only was he a criminal himself, but more or less a stranger too. Perhaps she just needed to vent it out of her, or something along those lines. Loss at the hands of another was something he was fairly familiar with, so he could feel some sense of empathy here.

"I take it you're also looking for your brother while trying to seek out the culprits," he added while he was digesting everything he had heard. The thief felt some need to try and push her off the path of revenge, but she seemed to be pretty deep in it already.

During the entire story, Vol was laying by, listening. He could draw a couple similarities between the two's past though he definitely wouldn't say they were on the same boat. It was close though. Heaving out a heavy breath, he rested his head back onto the ground as he glanced over towards the other espers to see how they were reacting to all of this.

Nodding slowly to the girl, Blade remained by the fire, brooding over a few things here and there. Unfortunately he didn't know much about the killers, but it probably wouldn't be too hard to dig up some information from the underground. He would just have to be careful about it. And actually, there were a few questions he had for her before doing anything else, but he supposed it could wait until morning seeing how she was heading to bed now.

Eyeing the rabbit, Vol reached out for it and went ahead to finish it off. Rocks aside, real meat was good to have too. As he munched on the roasted rabbit, he looked at the thief and spoke softly.

"What are you going to do?" he asked quietly so as to not disturb Isis from her attempt to sleep. The flaming Maonui wanted to know Blade's thoughts on the matter.

"There's a few things I'd like to find out first..." replied the man. If he were to help her out with finding the culprits, he'd only be pushing her further along the path of vengeance. He would be more willing to try and locate her brother if possible, but that was most likely the harder of the two.

"Trying to figure out if you'd get anything out of it?"

"Vol, you know I'm not like that," sighed Blade as he shook his head. But Vol did have a point there; he had little to gain for helping her either way. That wasn't much of a concern for him right now, however.

The next day, while they were packing up the camp, Blade thought a little more on what he had learned the previous night. Once he had finished up and slung his sack over his shoulder, he paused and looked towards the path they were most likely going to be taking.

"There's a few questions I have for you before we move on," he started quietly before fixing his eyes onto her, "First off... let's say you manage to kill the culprits who caused the tragedy. What do you plan on doing then? It seems to me that right now that is your biggest drive; your purpose you could say. What happens once that's finished?"

The expression he wore was rather serious. He didn't care too much if it offended her since he felt this was fairly important. It was something he thought she needed to think about before anything else at the moment.