Skai Prisa

"Tell me how she died." The small girl asked her adoptive mother, who sat on the Commander's throne in front of her as she sat cross legged before her.

The brunette gave a small, sad smile, "I'll tell you how she lived." She said softly, remembering her lost love who her spirit longed for and hated waiting for her next life to see again.

"The first time I met her was when she came to me to offer an alliance.  When I saw her I did not think much of her, but I knew from what I heard she was much more than what I saw.  So I said, 'So you're the one that burned 300 of my warriors alive.'

And she replied with, 'And you're the one that sent them to kill us.'

I was so taken aback by the out front, unscathed reply that I was shocked into silence for a moment until I recovered.

She told me that she had an offer and at first I didn't believe her when she told me that she could change Reapers back into men.  Then she brought me to the dropship.  When we came up the ladder Lincoln was laying dead on the floor with Octavia crying over him."

"You mean Uncle Lincoln?" The girl broke in with wide eyes.

The Commander smiled softly, "Sha (Yes), Uncle Lincoln.  Now listen to the story and you will now how he is here."

"I thought I had been betrayed and led into a trap but just as I was about to order for them all to be killed she brought him back to life with a Skaikru electric stick.  Even then, she was Wanheda - the Commander of Death."

The Commander stopped here at the familiar pang in her heart.  For all the deaths she had brought and all the lives she had saved, she could not command herself to live.

"Is that when you loved her?" The girl asked curiously.

The Commander smiled, shaking her head, "No, I loved my Skai Prisa (Sky Princess) since the first moment I saw her." With a soft breath, she resumed her story.

"I said that for the alliance to stand the boy Finn, who had killed 18 innocent Trikru, had to die.  Stubborn as she was she refused and the Skaikru protected him until he turned himself in.

To protect him from the pain of 18 deaths that he should have suffered, she killed him herself.  Many wished her dead in return, but the deal was done and the boy was dead so the alliance stood.

We grew closer as we began planning for an attack on the Mountain.

After one meeting one of my warriors decided to try and kill her.  Back then there was a Pauna near the village that killed her guard, leaving her open to attack.  I showed up just in time to save her from him, only to be forced to leave him to die as we had to flee the Pauna ourselves."

The Commander paused here again as a smile played over her lips at the memories.  Then she forged on,

"My remaining and loyal guard sacrificed himself in a futile attempt to protect us.  We had to make a jump down and that is probably the injury that I got in the dumbest way ever.  Someone with little to no practice and training came out unscathed while I injured my arm.

Yet she refused to leave me, saving me from the Pauna - twice.

We escaped and the next morning, in the forest where we'd camped, is when she came up with our plan.

It went well, until I ruined it.  I accepted the Maunon's (Mountain Men's) deal to trade the original Twelve Clan's members for the Skaikru's.

The look on her face, full of shattering hope and pain, will forever be in my mind.  Never will I forget that look or that mistake."

The usually unshakable Commander had to pause here to reign in her own emotions to keep them from overwhelming her, blinking tears furiously from her eyes.  The girl before her waited patiently yet eagerly for her to go on.