"prisoners of the ark, hear me now"
in which a councillors daughter, a girl who doesn't exist, and a hotshot engineer find out how to survive on the dead planet of earth
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seasons 1-2 of the 100
multiple love interests for mu...
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THE GIRL IN THE CELL OFTEN THOUGHT about the end of the world. Trapped within walls of white, there wasn't much for her to do except think and wonder. The girl had not much except her imagination, even if she used to envision such dreary things as the world ending.
It had been almost a century since the Earth was destroyed. A nuclear war, as she had been taught in the books gifted to her by the Chancellor. A kindness, the guards of the prison told her. She saw it more as pity for the girl who would never see anything outside of the Skybox. She was thankful for the books, of course. It gave her some entertainment.
She had been locked up for over four thousand and seven hundred days. Majority of those days had been spent in the plain walls of her cell where she wasn't even granted the mercy of a cellmate. She lived in a world where she was truly alone, so she imagined a world that had not ended.
She wondered what it would be like to grow up on Earth.
She imagined a childhood free of a cell, being raised by her parents.
She thought of the brother torn away from her, the fate that sealed her away in the first hours of her life.
When the Earth was destroyed in the war, radiation simmering across the surface from the atomic bombs that were launched across the planet, humans raced for their survival. The books she read spoke of rumours of bunkers, of humans going underground. She didn't know if there was any truth to them, and knew even if there was, most went to space.
Of the thirteen nations with operating space stations, twelve forged together into one giant space station. The Ark. Despite it being her home in the stars, she hadn't seen much of it. She had spent most of her life locked away in the Skybox- as she had heard the guards call it.
In space, survival was everything. It was all that mattered, continuing the human race, so laws got strict. The leaders of the Ark formed a council, being led by a Chancellor. The Chancellor. The council made the laws, they executed the laws, and they did not look kindly upon anyone who broke the law. Any crimes committed were met with the punishment of death. Bodies ejected out into the cold abyss of space, known as floating. It was another thing she learned from the guards.
The closest thing to an exception to being put to the death was those under eighteen. Minors were put in lockup until they turned of age, facing a review from the council, and then either being pardoned, which rarely occurred, or being sentenced to floating.
It was the fate that awaited her by her next birthday.
Six months and twenty-one days, but who's counting?
