27 | we're almost home

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chapter twenty-seven
WE'RE ALMOST HOME
"'cause there's no use running,
'cause the storms still coming."

Trojan horse time

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Trojan horse time.

Bellamy burst through the vent to the harvest chamber soundlessly.

He immediately grabbed the keys, and went to unlock the cage of the Grounder girl who helped him earlier, "Get up. It's time to go."

She looked wildly at him as he helped her out of the cage, "I told you I'd come back for you. Our people are marching on Mount Weather right now."

Bellamy then moved to the next cage with a Grounder boy. After unlocking the cage, he tried to help him out too, but he was met with a kick in the face, "Hey! It's okay. We're getting you out."

The girl spoke up, "Slow down. They just bled him."

"Listen to me. There's an army inside this room, and I need you to help me get them ready to fight. Can you do that?" She nodded. "Good. Start with him."

Bellamy went around to some other cages, unlocking them as fast as his fingers would let him as the Grounder spoke in a language Bellamy couldn't understand, coaxing her people out of the cages.

The other Grounders, sensing freedom, started to get antsy, shouting and rattling their cages.

Bellamy yelled over the shouts, "Too much noise."

Raising her voice, she yelled, "Taim yu gaf in bilaik lus au, shof op!"

Bellamy hadn't the slightest idea of what she said, but it worked, and the room fell quiet.

The Grounder turned to him, "Okay. How do we do this?

"There's an army outside going for the main door. When they get it open, all hell will break loose. That is the signal for my friends to come here, and—" Bellamy was cut off by the crackling of the P.A. and Cage's voice filling the room.

"My fellow citizens, this is your president. I have news to share with you that will change all of our lives forever.

For 97 years, Mount Weather has been our home. It's kept us alive, but it has also held us captive. Most of us have made peace with what we've had to do to survive. We've done these things for one reason... so that our people could someday return to the ground.

That day is today."

Bellamy panicked, "He's going public."

"Before my friend Lorelei Tsing was murdered by the outsiders still at large in this mountain, she found a cure. It was in their bone marrow."

He had to go get his people before the Mountain Men did.

Bellamy shakily handed the Grounder the keys, "Here. I'll be back."

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