xxviii. act twenty-eight

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It was quiet
Inside.
I was sure
No one was
Awake.
Spacewalker had
Fallen asleep,
Long ago.
I was sure
Of it.
I gripped my knife handle,
And slinked around
The quarters,
Until I found
The Sick Bay,
Where they kept
Their medicals.
I couldn't kill
Their Healer,
That could
Possibly
Affect
Spacewalker
Or Clarke,
If they ever got
Sick.
Instead,
I took out the first guard.
She was dosing off,
And I came up
Behind her,
Clamping
My hand over
Her mouth,
And slitting
Her throat.
Jus drein
Jus daun.
That was one.
Hundreds more
To go.
I knew
Trikru would
Take care
Of the masses.
But I
Would avenge
Terri,
Stiles,
Dell,
Pearce.
I'd personally
Seen
Terri and Stiles
Get killed.
As for Dell,
I'd seem her body on
The ground,
Fried.
Pearce's
Back
Had a bullet
Wound.
Skaikru.
I took the other
Knife
From
My belt,
And flung
It at
The guard
Next to her,
Right as
He reached
For his gun.
For Stiles.
For Terri.
The Sick Bay
Would be easy.
I was tempted
To destroy
The racks of medicine.
But again,
I thought of
Spacewalker
Or
Clarke.
I retrieved my
Twin knives,
And slipped inside,
Unnoticed.
Quietly,
I looked around.
If Lincoln
Were here,
He'd help me
Kill two more.
I was about
To take
Another girl's
Life.
When I noticed,
She was a child.
My knife stopped
In mid-air.
Pearce
Had been
Just a child too.
A thirteen
Year
Old.
Skaikru
Hadn't cared.
So I shouldn't
Either.
I sunk my knife
Into her head,
And saw
Her eyes fly open,
And stay that way.
Only the people
I honored,
Got their eyes
Closed
By me.
It didn't take much
To kill the next
Person.
She was already
Dying
Too.
It was a woman,
Perhaps in
Her early twenties.
Gone.
For Dell.
For
Pearce.

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