The 100 Things and Such.

Float or Fall: III

Anya had taught me ruthlessness, she taught me the value of a firm but guiding hand, while Leksa was able to teach me peace of mind, body, and spirit through her gentle demeanor.

Leksa had troubles trusting me with what she knew, but learned through her own mistakes and in her own time that even her great mentor had thought me to be a gift from the gods.

We ruled together, though when we disagreed, she won whether she was right or wrong.

Her decisions were sometimes fast making them rather harsh at times.. This was solved by warning her that quick decisions can be mistaken as emotionally based things and therefore may be misinterpreted as weakness.

Anything not in immediate need of attention was determined over at least a short amount of time.. Thus, creating the first steps toward much more organized killings.

Murders had to die, but not everyone had to die.. Sure, sometimes everyone did have to die, but it became fewer and fewer as time passed, strengthening our communities with harsh justice, rather than extreme revenge.

I had heard many rumors of Skaikru and for a moment, it had only rung a bell.. The news of almost a hundred soldiers falling from the sky travelled like wildfire through out the capitol, yet somehow it slipped my mind that more people of the sky had fallen.

The people stopped calling me a person of the sky, out of respect.. They truly believed I was from the gods as a gift to aid the Commander.

An enlightened being brought to Earth to save them.. Certainly, nothing like these sky savages.

At first thought, I hadn't acknowledged much of Skaikru.

I firmly believed no one from the Ark would or could have followed me, and I highly doubted they even had a hundred soldiers let alone that many to spare on hunt for a girl they most likely assumed floated herself or is still somewhere on the Ark.

From the stories I'd heard the ship they came down in barely resembled anything from the Ark or any of its individual colonies.

I was scouting on the opposite end of Skaikru territory with Lincoln when I first saw them, Leksa's orders were to keep me away from them but he admitted to me on our little outing that he befriended one of them.

A sky girl named Octavia, whose description matched that of my favorite little sister.. I let him talk until I realized that it had to be the same girl and I made him arrange a private meeting.

Seeing Octavia again, alive and thriving on the ground brought me so much happiness.

She was so interested in our culture, so enthusiastic about learning as always, so Lincoln would set up our meetings and gaurd our perimeter, believing he was helping us create peace.

O told me what happened, everything that happened.. Jaha, or Kane, or someone had had the bright idea to float a dummy so that everyone else thought I was gone.

Bellamy made it to the ground, so did Finn, Jasper, Monty, and Murphy.

When I heard that Clarke was on the ground I started to cry.. So many emotions hit me, happiness, sadness, fear, guilt, but most of all I knew I still loved her.

I made Octavia promise to keep it a secret that I was alive, and I didn't ask about Clarke.. On the ground, I'm still Leksa's.

I told her everything, or almost everything about my time here, casually leaving out the wedding and my soul being bound to the woman signing all the kill orders against our friends.

Lincoln knew better than to ask me about my business, though without hearing my conversations with Octavia he was probably still acting on his own behalf.

By informing the commander of my actions, he would be forced to admit to helping me commit treason against Kongeda.

Octavia swore to secrecy as long as I would tutor her in my new Earth ways, and I had appointed Lincoln as my second so we could sneak off to see her.

As payment for staying quiet I offered to share with Lincoln some of my wisdom but he refused, claiming he wasn't godly enough.

I told him it wasn't necessary to be born a god to think like one, but still he politely refused.

Lincoln had always been a favorite of mine to see around, always kind and helpful, as well as strong, quick, and powerful, he was usually the man I could asked to get the job done, since no matter the task he'd finish it.

He was quite happy to be assigned as my second, especially since Leksa actually trusted him to gaurd my life full time on his own, not that I couldn't handle myself, Leksa just believed I needed more protection than what was necessary.

She wanted to assign Indra to my guard at first but I refused any service that wasn't Lincoln's, claiming that anyone else would only slow us down and interfere with our missions.

He and I got to spend plenty of time with Octavia just the two of us, we taught her our ways and she taught Lincoln hers while I would pretend that Arkship was a foreign concept.

Lincoln let it slip to her in passing that I was a god, sent from the sky to guide the commander through victory, to which Octavia laughed but played it off before he could think anything of it to be disrespectful or suspicious.

I didn't think life on Earth could get any better until O gave me a welcome back gift on one of our outtings.

To Lincoln or any other grounders seeing the interaction it would seem as though she gifted me and old raggedy sweatshirt.

There were rips and split seems, holes, stains, and dried mud all over the stupid, little, dark-navy garment.

It smelled of dirt from sleeping on the forest floor and blood, for which reason I wasn't sure, nor did I ask, but inside the hoodie smelled of Clarke, and only of Clarke.. A scent I hadn't even realized I missed so much until I caught a whiff of it again.

I wanted to be consumed by it again but I knew I couldnt.. I had become rather familiar with Leksa's scent as well and although I wasn't as in love with her as I had been with Clarke, I did love Leksa and I was loyal to her..