❝sᴏᴍᴇᴛɪᴍᴇs ǫᴜɪᴇᴛ ɪs ᴠɪᴏʟᴇɴᴛ.❞ - ᴛᴡᴇɴᴛʏ øɴᴇ ᴘɪʟᴏᴛs
A delinquent, who hasn't been able to speak since murdering her mother, is sent down from outerspace with a hundred others to see if earth is survivable again. Everyone on the Ark has condemned her...
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Tʜᴇ Mᴏᴜɴᴛᴀɪɴ Mᴇɴ return Harper and Skye to their cages. Harper is in the top cage now as they moved Skye to the cage below her. The Grounder she'd been speaking to is beside her and tries to hide away from the men as they lock their cages once again. Skye lucked out of being drilled into today, but she had to endure every scream that came out of Harper's mouth. The latter girl is passed out above her as she lays on her side with her head pressed against the side of the cage that's not against the other Grounders. Skye sees the dried tears on Harper's face and wonders how she's going to get them out of there. She can hope all she wants that Clarke made it out but that doesn't stop Cage and Dr. Tsing from drilling into them now.
Somewhere Skye can't see, she hears the Mountain Men moving cages and stacking them. She could tell they were preparing for something, but she didn't know if it was for more Grounders or for the rest of the hundred. Neither is good, and she had a feeling it's for the rest of her friends.
"Yu gonplei ste odon," Skye says. A few Grounders turn to her as she speaks their native tongue, including the one next to her. Her eyes move from Harper's face to the Grounder who talks to her. "What does that mean?"
The Grounder asks, "Where did you hear it?"
"Anya said it to one of your people down in the tunnels. Before she killed them out of mercy."
It's quiet for a moment before he answers, "It means, 'Your fight is over.' We say it to the dead or the dying so they know it's not the end but they don't have to fight anymore."
Skye nods. She's noticed similar customs between the people of the Ark and the Grounders. Death is universal as well as the need for a peaceful send off.
"My people have a similar saying, 'May we meet again.' It's part of a longer blessing that's more so said by the adults."
"What is it?"
Skye keeps her eyes on the Grounder's face as she recites the blessing, "In peace, may you leave this shore. In love, may you find the next. Safe passage on your travels, until our final journey to the ground. May we meet again."
Skye's mind wanders to her father. She never got to say the blessing to him. He was alone the day the Ark Council floated him for her actions. Even worse, Jaha, Kane, or Abby Griffin might have been there to send him off. Choosing to take away the only family she had left before she even woke up. Knowing what she knows now, they more than likely floated him because they already knew the life-support systems were failing.
Skye's eyes narrow as she connects the ideas. It never made sense why they would take her father's word on how things happened without asking her. They didn't even look into the facts of what happened. If her father forced her to shoot her mother, why would he push her? How would she have hit her head otherwise? The Ark Council did not care about the real reason behind her mother's death. They needed one less body on the Ark, and one more young delinquent to send down to Earth.
