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We were in the aftermath of our Unity Day party when somebody pointed up at the sky and shouted, "A shooting star!"

I wasn't as tipsy as everyone else was, mainly because I don't like the memories that come with my past with drinking, so I assumed that it was just a firefly passing through the air. More people were staring up at the sky, so I decided to see what all of the talk was about and looked up at the sky. Roaring through the inky black sky was what looked to be the tail of a comet, but it wasn't.

"It's the first exodus ship!" I shouted excitedly, because I was finally going to be able to hug my father for the first time in nearly two weeks-I missed him so much. The white flare rushing through the sky wasn't slowing down, it was speeding up.

Then, with a sound similar to an atomic bomb going off, the ship crash landed into the thick forest, and in the distance you could see the light from the explosion.

I fell to my knees, and I felt like I was going to throw up. "We're preparing the exodus ships, and I promise I'll be on the first one," My dad's words rang through my head, and I felt the pit in my stomach grow to the size of a mountain.

"No!" I cried loudly, "No, no, no, no!"

I had just witnessed the explosion of the first exodus ship.

Watching my father explode when the exodus ship hit the ground was the worst feeling in the world, and I had taken it much worse than losing Murphy. The reason I knew it was much worse was that I was so depressed and grief stricken that I couldn't even cry, because I was in so much shock.

It hurt so badly, because he was so excited to see me and to be on the ground. He just wanted to see me, and he died because of it.

He died not sure if I forgave him for everything that had happened, and I would give anything to let him know . . . to let him know that I forgive him.

I was so depressed that I couldn't even bring myself to search the exodus ship wreckage, but Clarke did. Dr. Griffin was on that ship along with my father, and they both died-Clarke seemed to be taking it much better than I was.

Once I finally decided to emerge from Clarke and I's tent it was night time, and everyone was asleep except for the guards waiting to shoot a grounder for what happened on the bridge. Not since last night had I eaten, so it was a good idea for me to eat a little something.

The camp was quiet, which was nice, but I desperately wanted somebody to talk to. I walked into the food-shack, and picked up a handful of nuts we had gathered. As I walked out I noticed that a lot of people were gathered around the wall waiting to see if any of the group had returned yet, so I decided to join them

Monty sat on a platform looking through a hole in the gate, and when he noticed me he stated, "No sign of them yet."

"It's a long walk," I said, and gestured to Monty, "Want one?"

He picked up two small nuts from my hand, and we began to snack on them. Behind us Jasper was telling the story of what happened at the bridge for the millionth time, and he said, "Fear is only a problem if you let it stop you."

I glared back at him and his new groupies and said to Monty, "That's not even his line, Finn said that." Monty chuckled, "This has to stop."

"Oh come on, let him have this. Look at him, the boy's a folk hero; they even gave us a bigger tent," Monty said happily.

Then, a loud clanking sound came from the woods, and Connor yelled, "Something hit the trip wire!" Monty and I backed up away from the hole in the wall so the grounders couldn't spear us.

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