Name: Maria<br/>Location: Giga's HMMWV<br/>Summary: In tears about to bury her troubles in a book.<br/>Tagged: Giga<br/><br/>Maria was quiet as he touched her hair and the back of her neck. She did not flinch away from his touch this time though. She fixed her eyes on her feet until he moved away shutting the door with a light thud.<strong>"So be good, don't act out, and stick close to me." </strong>His words echoed about in her thoughts, as she sat there for what felt like forever until he rejoined her in the car. She could guess that it would be safest for her to stick to him. From what she saw he was by far the biggest of the Raiders. She set her bag down by her feet and reached inside pulling out the only of the books  she had that was actually fully intact. A collection of stories from some Brothers, the Grimm brothers. Ajax had found it for her in a bunker, he had traded a great deal of his handy work for the book so Maria could have it on her birthday. That memory felt like it was a lifetime ago.<br/><br/>She glanced at him for just a second wondering if he ever took that skull mask off. It was to be honest rather scary looking. That was the point though more than likely. Add a scary mask to his size and the body armor and he probably seemed pretty intimidating when he rolled up on an enemy. She turned looking at his shield and weapons in the back seat, yeah he could probably make a grown man wet himself in fear if he was fully decked out.<br/><br/>She set the book in her lap and opened to her favorite story. She needed to get her mind away from all that had happened today. In her books she was safe, there was no bandits, no waste land, no fear of what would come next.  She looked over to the bus once again glad that from this angle she could not see the poor dead girl's body. Holding the book motivated her to not cry any more, wetting the paper was one of the last things she wanted to do to the book.<br/><br/>