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Being in that cell had given me a lot of time to think. The key to survival is to keep fighting; the moment you give up, you're dead. Pike's words from the first day of Earth skills resonated in my mind as well as the first time I saw Sam. I laughed. I still remember the look on Pike's face when he was beating me up and Sam stood up against him, smashing that chair on his back: priceless. She didn't remember me when she saw me on the ground so I had acted as if nothing had happened. To be fair she only came to class like three times and it was clear she wasn't there to make friends. There was something dark about her that the adults decided to keep from the rest of us after she spoke back to Pike and everything made sense when they tried to hang me: she was a murderer. But she wasn't the only one, there was another guy down with us that was a murderer too. It also probably had to do with the fact that she had nothing to lose...I'll die trying. That's what she had answered Pike when he told her she wasn't strong enough to fight him on her own. We had to fight back together, we have to do that now. I hated to admit it, but we needed Pike to get out of there. We could get rid of him later.
- "Hey!" –I turned to face the woman who had kept on cutting Pike's body.
- "What!"
- "Listen, I know you're mad and you want to kill him, I do too, but we need him to get out of here. He's strong." –she cut him again, ignoring everything I was saying- "Hey, listen to me! Our real enemy right now is out there. Jaha has an army of chipped soldiers who don't feel any pain, which means they're not gonna stop until all of us either join them or die."
- "Don't waste your breath, kid." –Pike breathed out.
- "Yu gonplei ste udon."
The woman moved the weapon to cut Pike's neck, but another Grounder shouting made her stop; I didn't know what she was saying but she stopped.
- "Ask yourself this, do you want your revenge or do you want your people to live?"
- "Both." –she turned to face me- "I'll get my revenge." –she moved away from Pike- "Just not today."
She moved back to her place as the rest of the Grounders looked at her. I turned around to sit back in my place realizing Pike was looking at me with a self-satisfied smile on his face.
- "Go float yourself. Everything I've learned, I learned on the Ground."
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