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Trina saw it and scooted forward a bit. There had to be something she could do...Arian's voice floated through her mind, but Trina ignored it. Her friends would not, could not die yet, and River...well River should live as long as Trina could live... "We are ageless...we know not the word 'old'...you cannot die, you must not allow it..." She whispered, dark eyes seeming to have their own dark light in them, looking at River. "Your body cannot fail you...it has survived decades of life, it will survive decades more. You must believe this...your candle in the dark River. You will not die as long as you desire life." She said this forcefully, dark eyes hard. She did not know if this would work or not, but she was going to try it anyway. It had worked before....why not now? Life had to be wanted to be sustained...

Trina sighed. "They are idiots...I do not judge you to be bad River...I do not know why they assume it so..." She was thinking hard about something. "River...when you drink blood...does it become your own?" She asked, soft voice thoughtful.

Trina blinked, pulling herself form thinking about solutions. Maara? River wanted to talk about Maara? Well, if that's what she wanted... "I...suppose...why?" Trina asked, tilting her head a bit. She wasn't sure how to really explain Maara. Trina had brought home a bedraggled cat she had rescued from drowning, only to have it turn out she was a person. Not that Trina had really understood that's cats weren't people, Ellie had tried to tell her so but it had not worked out very well.

Trina said nothing for a few seconds, studying River carefully. Would she have really harmed a child? Trina thought this over, speaking again in her quiet voice. "I trust you River. And I know Maara can get overbearing, and disrespectful...but I do not think you would cause her intentional harm under a calm state of mind. It is the emotions I have been worried about...they overwhelm." Then she considered the last question, wanting to be sure she could be completely honest when she answered. "You...are more perceptive than the others...you understand that I am not stupid, or a child...I know what it is to be mistreated, to be used...you have not done those things to me River, and I do not think you would. I do not know why she would say such a thing...it is not something she would know." Trina smiled faintly. "And the fact that you would ask me this tells us both much more. You do not mistreat me, we are equals." She nodded.

"Very good job..." Trina agreed, not wanting to think about Maara dying. Maara looked to Trina to keep her safe, Trina would not want her to come to harm. She wasn't angry with River though, because she did not view it as River's fault. River was suffering from her own emotions... It was River who needed protection, and it hurt Trina to know she could not offer it in this battle...River had to sort it out alone... "You are my equal." She repeated, saying it more to herself than to River. River would get through it. "You said...you were ill earlier today? What made you ill?" She asked, not using the term 'throwing up' because it seemed odd to her.

Trina sat straight up again, going cold. "Looking for...?" She looked worried for a second, then remembered herself. "What...did they say?" She could tell River needed rest, but this was bad...maybe it was a mistake...Trina cursed Arian mentally, she had thougth that with the death of her, things would be safer.

Trina wasn't sure what to respond with. On one hand, River had not been harmed because of her, which was good. On the other, someone was now dead, and it was Trina's fault. "I...it..." Trina struggled to put this together. Sachin was dead, she had killed him. Any angelic that had teamed up with him were trapped in reverted forms in those damn staffs. Those staffs were either lost or destroyed. Arian had headed up the search for other angelics for their planet...Arian was the only one who had found Trina. No one else had been told of the locations she had been tracked through. Arian was dead, she had killed her also. So who the hell did that leave? And Male...it wasn't the order...the order had to be gone by now, that had been before Trina's time even, during Sachin's early life. "River...what did he do to try and dispatch of you, thinking you were...of my race?" She asked, dark eyes meeting River's again, not sure what to do, faintly afraid, but working hard to keep calm. She needed to let River sleep...but she had to know, had to figure this out.