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I didn't sleep much that night after everything that had happened. They really added Pike's name to the election for Chancellor; I mean... did everyone go insane while I passed out? I let my thoughts wander off as the first rays of sunlight appeared on the horizon. Bellamy... what happened? I felt tears in my eyes but I refused to let them run, quickly running my hands over my face and raising from the bed. I need to get out. I didn't know where he had been spending the nights since I woke up and, at that point, I didn't care either. How can I convince him... show him how wrong Pike is if he won't even look at me. Maybe it was all a lie... what we had... maybe it was just me being in love with the idea of love... I shook my head trying to get rid of those intrusive thoughts as I made my way out of the Ark and towards Selene, mounting on her and moving towards the gate.
- "Open."
- "Where are you going?"
- "I don't know."
- "The vote's today, did you already submit your paper?"
- "Yes."
- "I'll sound a horn once it's done, in case you want to come back by then."
I nodded. I knew he was one of the few guards who didn't agree with Pike and that was the only reason I got out that morning. Selene and I moved around the forest for a while until we stumbled into the clearing where I trained with Ion and Sheda, finding the last one there.
- "Sheda? What are you doing here?"
- "What are you doing here?"
- "I couldn't sleep, I needed to get out of there..." –I got down from Selene.
- "Today's the vote for Chancellor, right?"
- "Yeah and I'm afraid of what's going to happen."
- "Wanna talk?"
- "Last night... Pike took his people and Bellamy armed them; they wanted to get rid of the army somehow but we managed to stop them."
- "Bellamy?"
- "He's not the guy you met all those months ago. I don't know him... it's not only he won't talk to me or that he didn't even react when I got a rifle to the chest..."
- "What!?"
- "I'm fine. It's just, he's not thinking, he's just letting Pike use him and boss him around and I can't even begin to process it. The Bellamy I loved would have never let anyone tell him what to do."
- "Loved?"
- "I can't love someone who wants to get my friends killed..." -I faced Sheda- "Indra and Ion are in that army."
