<div class="floatright">(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g393/theredfear/MaleCharPics/The-vampire-diaries-2x14-crying-wolf-tyler-lockwood-cap_mid.jpg)<br/><strong>Name:</strong> River<br/><strong>Species:</strong> Primal - Totemic<br/><strong>Location:</strong> Redemption<br/><strong>Summary:</strong> Getting Abby away from there<br/><strong>Tagged</strong> Abigail, Rae, Anyala </div><br/>He grinned a bit and nodded as Anyala offered her aid. "That'd be great actually. Are you...sure? If I heard right earlier, ain't you a real big shot in the Helka? I could definitely use your help, but if something goes wrong and you get hurt Tara is gonna Frog my ass. She will literally turn my ass into that of a Frog's. I saw her do it once. One of the creepiest damn things I ever saw.  " he said with a slight shiver. Sure the guy deserved it but...damn.<br/><br/>Then deadly little Rae showed up. "Oh...hi...Rae." Again, while River was no stranger to the fairer sex, Rae was a whole other breed of animal. The only other woman who ever made him feel like a boy in the prescence of a woman was Elsa. Except in Rae's case it was less a woman and more like a Black Widow. Is this what male Widow Spiders feel like? Tempting, but you just know it's gonna end bloody. Still...tempting. "Actually, that guy that shuffled through a while ago? Spotted his group a couple miles out. They got hit by some kind of Demon I never saw before. Tried to run out and help but I was too late. "<br/><br/>The altercation between the Homesteader and Helka caught his attention away from the two women. As well as Tara's interuption of it. River was more than a little surprised at how quickly Tara had taken Abigail's side. Not like he wasn't sympathetic to Abigail...especially after she described how rough it was to be a woman in Homestead. But much as he sympathized he didn't kid himself for a second. Being trapped in Homestead all her life, she'd never seen just how much worse it could be for her out in the wastes. If she ever got a glimpse of what it was like for the humans who lived as cattle and playthings in the Demon Strongholds, she might not be so quick to compare the men of Homestead to the things that flay men's souls as easily as they flay flesh.<br/><br/>He'd seen some truly vile horrors, and the things he saw on the few Ranger missions that had called for strikes deep into Demon-Controlled territory still turned his stomach when he thought back to them. It helped that unlike many of the older rangers, he was young enough to have no memory of the old world. Hell World was all he knew, so he was better able to adapt and cope with the atrocities than most of the old timers. He'd never known anything else afterall. He wondered if Abigail might look back at her time in Homestead a bit less critically if she ever was unfortunate enough to see how people were treated by the<em>real</em>monsters.<br/><br/>That said, he was still glad to see the Homesteader taken down a knotch. Just because he didn't equate them with the more horrific nasties out there, doesn't mean he didn't think it was scummy how they treated their women. Most of them anyway. He'd met a few Homestead guys over the years who seemed decent enough. Just trying to defend their last little slice of civilization, same as anyone else.<br/><br/>He nodded when Tara gave him the instructions, and gestured away from the group. "This way Abigail. And the name's River." He waited for her to start moving and walked alongside her. Abigail had to be alot more important than River realized. No way Tara would risk damaging the relationship between Homestead and the Enclave for just any girl, even a mechanically inclined one. It's not like other escapees from Homestead hadn't tried over the years. Two or three that River knew of. They were offered shelter, but if Homestead officers succesfully tracked them here and requested their return, the Enclave had always complied. As far as River knew, only one Homestead Refugee was still living in Redemption, having been clever enough to leave a false trail for her pursuers that sent them right into a Helka Camp. But the others had been returned reluctantly. Homestead was where alot of the bullets, repair parts, and other high-value goodies the Rangers of the Enclave used out in the field came from. The trade relationship between them was a critical lifeline...not something you risk just to get a girl out of a brothel, however distasteful it might be to turn a blind eye to them...unless she's a damn important girl. And they would be damn troublesome enemies since the barrier that keeps demons out would be useless against the heavily armed human soldiers of Homestead and their more heavily armed robot war machines.