Ian was completely in bad shape. His wounds didn't seem like something that would go away that easily, but nonetheless, we journeyed on. Vladimir was specifically tasked to carry him around. A great irony, since he inflicted the wounds...but that wasn't the reason why we tasked him to do so. Aside from Ian, he was another person endowed with super human strength and lifting Ian's weight would be nothing to him. As you should know, Ian never sat well with the idea and for this reason they always bickered like cat and dogs during the journey; With Ian always throwing groundless threats at the vampire, too much for someone injured to the point of death.
We trudged wearily up against the rugged terrain. It seemed like we were almost hiking. Studying the map, we were now two days away from the
