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❝Humans only know how to crumble.❞
After murdering the man who killed her father, aged 15 Ariel Matthews is arrested and her mother floated for not doing anything about it.
2 years later, she has...
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My eyes slowly open as I hear cries besides me. I immediately shoot up, thinking the grounders have attacked us. But then I realise it's a sleeping Charlotte next to me. I shake her, trying to wake her up. "Hey, wake up. It's okay. It's okay. It's just a dream Charlotte. It's okay to be scared. Do you want to talk about it?"
Charlotte sits up, tears in her eyes. "It's my parents. They were floated and...I see it in my dreams." She moans, a tear streams down her soft red checks. I sigh, feeling sorry for her.
"I understand. My mum was floated too. Hey, you see that star up there?" I ask, pointing to a bright sky in the dark night sky.
She nods, looking up. "That's The Ark orbiting above us. I think whatever happened up there, you know, the pain... maybe we can move past that now. Maybe being on the ground is our second chance." I say, looking down at her.
"Do you really believe that?" She asks me, still looking at the stars. I sigh and look up as well. "I'm trying to."
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"What you boys doing?" I smile, looking at Bellamy and Murphy, after hearing metal hitting trees I instantly knew it was knives. As a little girl, my father taught me to throw knives precisely. He never told me why but, now I know it's because he knew one day I'd come down to earth and he wanted to know I could protect myself.
Murphy throws a knife at a tree and fails miserably. I sigh deeply and Murphy looks at me. "It's that kid, he's messing with my head." he implies and I listen to Jaspers groans and sigh. Bellamy and I glance at eachother as I walk over to him, my eyes still glued to his.
I put my hand out and he scoffs. "You really think you can do this?"
I glare at him intensely. "Bellamy, I know I can do this. Better than anyone in this camp."
"Alright then." Bellamy says, carefully placing a knife in my hand. I clutch hold of it and stand besides him and Murphy raising it.
I pinpoint my target and throw it with all the strength in my bones. It digs into the tree and stays there. I smile as both of them look in awe at the knife in the tree. I walk over to it and take it out turning around and grinning. "Now that's how it's done." I put walking towards Murphy and patting him on the back.
I skip away, slowly putting the knife into my leather jacket smiling as I walk into the dropship to check on whats going on in the dropship. As I walk in, I notice Atom sharpening his knife. I fight the urgue to go up to him and talk about Octavia. I walk over to the ladder and climb up it, listening to the cries and groans of my new friend.
"Is he gonna be okay?" I ask Clarke and Finn, who are crouched over him along with Monty.
I watch as Clarke picks up a knife and dips it into a flame. Jasper's screams get louder. "Hopefully. Hold him still you two, I need to cut off the infected flesh." Clarke says to Finn and Monty. They obey her and grab a hold of Jasper.
