Our Journey (the Fourth Book in the Her Weakness series)

Chapter 71

Clarke's POV

That night, we all agree that we'll spend the next morning hunting. Though Raven and Octavia insist that we start at a "reasonable time."

After I give them the okay, Lexa's parents begin to prepare the rabbit I caught for dinner. Instead of watching them, I cuddle with their daughter in front of the fire we'll be cooking the rabbit on. Octavia and Raven are cuddling as well, right next to us.

I rest my head on Lexa's shoulder and close my eyes with a quiet yawn. Lexa's arm around my waist tightens slightly as she presses a kiss to my forehead. I smile contently and snuggle up against her further. Lexa chuckles and I yawn again, my eyes staying closed. I can feel the tiredness catch up with me and my body jolts itself awake a couple times as I keep falling into that place between being asleep and being awake.

"Clarke. Hodnes (love), wake up. It is time for dinner."

My eyebrows furrow as I try to work out what Lexa's saying. I open my eyes and notice that it's not as easy as if I was just resting my eyes. I must have actually fallen asleep. I'm still cuddled up against Lexa, my pillow being her shoulder. I sit up and yawn, stretching out my limbs.

"You awake, Princess?" Raven teases.

"Yeah. Like you weren't about to fall asleep," I respond.

"But I didn't actually fall asleep," Raven points out with a smirk.

I groan and rub my eyes. "I woke up too few minutes ago to deal with this."

My stomach grumbles and Lexa chuckles, pressing a soft kiss to my cheek that makes me melt inside.

"It is a good thing you are hungry, Skai Prisa (Sky Princess)," Priso says. "We are almost done cooking the rabbit."

I look at the fire and it's only now that I notice the smell. The smell of cooked rabbit isn't too different than of any other cooked meat, which means that it smells absolutely amazing. My stomach grumbles again and I try to discreetly wipe my mouth to make sure I didn't drool in my sleep. And to make sure that I'm not drooling now.

We thank Lexa's parents as they hand us each our food. I hum delightedly and wait impatiently for everyone else to be served too. Priso and Ali sit down and take a bite and that's when I dig in. Lexa chuckles and I know she probably is amused by how us Sky Girls eat like we haven't eaten in a week.

Raven and Octavia mumble out compliments to Priso and Ali as they stuff their faces. Luckily, they seem as amused as Lexa and not disgusted like some are.

Once we're all stuffed, we head off to bed in our tents. There are three, one for each couple. They're all a good ways apart, mostly because of my insistence that we wouldn't want to hear any of Raven and Octavia's... Night-time activities. Raven had smirked at that when we were setting up the tents but hadn't tried to protest, and Octavia had covered her face with her hands.

Lexa and I crawl into our own tent and close the flaps. Since we aren't here for long enough to warrant us having a actual bed, we have furs on the ground instead. We help each other out of our armor and then lie down. I cuddle up to Lexa, pressing a kiss to her bare collarbone as I lay my head against her chest.

"We do not have much time here left," Lexa murmurs.

I'm immediately more awake. "Yeah. Just a few more days until we go to Skaikru."

"Then to our town. Which we do need to name, hodnes (love)."

I laugh quietly to myself. "Shoot, I completely forgot about that. How have we forgotten to name the town we're creating?"

Lexa shrugs, her shoulder lifting me slightly. "I do not know. But we have to be the ones to name it, if only so that Raven and Octavia do not name it."

I snicker. "Yeah. They would probably name it something like Clexa Kru or Clexa town."

Lexa laughs. "That is fair, they would. Though I still think that Clexa is just Lexa with a C in front of it."

I nod. "Hmm. Yeah, but think of it this way. Clexa sounds nice, it works well together but it needs both of us in order to work."

"I like that," Lexa says softly. "Just like our relationship. We need each other."

I grin dopily at my beautiful fiancée. "Aww babe. I don't know, with just one of us the relationship would be 'handy.' " I wink at Lexa.

"Handy...?" Lexa muses. I slowly slide my hand down her stomach suggestively and she gets it immediately. "Oh! Clarke," she groans with a smile.

I laugh and sit up slightly so I can kiss her. Her smile widens and when I pull back, her soft gaze meets mine. I lie down again and cuddle up to get, knowing she won't want to do anything when we're so close to her parents.

"We could go simple, just call it new town. But in Trigedasleng, because New Town just sounds weird. Kinda like separating Newton." I say.

"So brana kapa (new city)?"

I shake my head. "No, that's too many a's for me. How about calling it Branageda? New place technically, but it works and has one less a. What do you think?"

Lexa mulls it over, which I appreciate. This could be the name of the town that Lexa and I are pretty much founding. It isn't exactly something that can or should be taken lightly.

"I like it," Lexa says.

"We can keep it and change it if we think of something better."

Lexa nods and nudges her nose against my forehead. I giggle at her antics and sit up again, this time straddling her. I lean down to kiss her, cupping her jaw with one hand.

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