Chapter Thirty

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"Without one it'll start a panic

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"Without one it'll start a panic."

"Good! They should be panicked. Maybe if they're panicked they will actually kick their asses into gear and help us come up with a solu-"

 Maybe if they're panicked they will actually kick their asses into gear and help us come up with a solu-"

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Two days.

That's how much time's passed since coming home and still we have come up with nothing.

Crowded in Mecha which we've closed off to the workers for the past two days in order to brainstorm strategies none of us have gotten anywhere. Sat atop my workbench, legs folded tiredly underneath me, I massage my temple with the spanner I've been fiddling with in the hopes to alleviate my stress derived migraine. For the past two days my mind's been running every angle every possibility I can think of in the hopes to save everyone. It's proving useless because every time one of us pitches an idea another will find a hole in it, rendering the plan utterly unhelpful.

"We've been at this for two days", Bellamy frustratedly groans around the dull workshop, thunder booming overhead as rain pours over Arkadia in sheets "There must be something we're not thinking of." Tiredly I notice Bellamy pacing back and forth over the map we've created on a glass pane over the months we've been on the ground, "What if we could reach the nearest nuclear reactor?"

"I told you", Raven speaks up from the other end of my workbench "The meltdown started months ago. There's no magic button to turn that off." Holding back my internal irritation, Raven tiredly explains "Today this isn't black rain but it will be soon. That's why we have to focus on riding out the radiation, finding someplace safe and big enough to hold all five hundred of us."

"This isn't just about saving us", Clarke speaks up for the first time in hours, stressing to the room "Avery made a promise to Roan. It's about saving everyone."

"Which is why we need to tell everyone", I circle back around to the comment I'd made this morning. Waving my spanner to the outside of Mecha, "Crowdsource it."

"If there's another Mount Weather out there the Grounders will surely know about it", Raven backs me up to Clarke and Bellamy who'd been the ones to shut the idea down in the first place.

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