Chapter 4
The infirmary/The Ark
Murphy feels restless. He is more alert today and even has a touch of cabin fever in the cramped infirmary. Anya has been to see him several times in the last couple of days, but she doesn´t really say much, and now she hasn´t been there since yesterday. He misses her. A so-called lawyer has come to talk to him about the upcoming trial. The ark only had two and naturally he got stuck with the most incompetent one. The two lawyers from the Ark just knew the exodus charter back to back - it´s not like they had studied law and ethics for years. Murphy was dreading the whole debacle; he did not want to revisit either the hangings or the murders. He winces, he does feel guilty about those, what was he thinking? He has already justified it to himself somewhat, but he know he can´t dwell too much on it without going to a very dark place, and he doesn't want that miserable feeling again.
For once he doesn´t feel totally alone and he wants it to stay that way. He waits for Anya to come, he has a feeling she will. And he can´t remember last time someone made him feel like she does.
It is kind of exhilarating.
The grounder camp in the woods
Lincoln struggles against his bonds. He is mad at himself, he should have been more careful. It´s not like he doesn´t know his own tribe´s tactics. On the upside he is in full earshot of what is going on, and he soon is glad he is. The two grounder tribes have been joined by another 5 tribes; 2 of them from across the sea, a couple of weeks trip. Lincoln is worried something very sinister is afoot.
His suspicions are soon confirmed.
Lexa stands in the middle of the group and shouts in a dominant voice "The skaikru has killed many of our people, more than 300 burned on the battlefield. This is our land, and has been for hundreds of years. We are here, and we are staying. This is WAR!"
Lexa´s eyes are burning and Lincoln can feel the intensity. So can all the others and cheers and shouts support her statements. He needs to warn Octavia and the others!
Outside the same camp
Bellamy has gone back to the Ark camp; he had to make it to the trial, or else he would be the one in jail.
Octavia can see Lincoln tied up close to where the grounders hold the meeting. She supposed they don't want him out of their sight, but it also makes it difficult to get to him. She sneaks closer and manages to make the agitated meeting work to their advantage. When they are preoccupied she throws Lincoln a knife. He looks up surprised but smiles to himself when he sees her. He pockets the knife and waits for the right moment.
Ravens workshop/The Ark
Raven is done with today´s workload and waits for Finn. They had gotten used to these nightly meet ups the last few days and tonight was no exception. She even had secured some moonshine from Monty´s old stash. Monty, she sighed. Monty, Jasper and more than 30 kids had been missing since the acid fog hit, it almost didn´t bear thinking about.
Finn enters, Jaha in tow. Raven is taken aback. The ex-chancellor always struck her as a kind of fanatic.
And Finn had that streak in him, for sure.
"Hey", he says, "look who I found"
Jaha laughs and sits down "Let´s not argue about who found who, but I would love for you to hear me out about the city of light"
"That is the plan" Finn says and lets Jaha continue to explain what the people he met after he landed had told him. Finn had already heard most of it, this was for Raven´s benefit.
Raven listens but remains sceptical. Somebody has to in this company.
She feels like she is loosing Finn.
Mess hall/The Ark.
The air is electric in the normally quiet-sounding mess hall. This is the first trial in a decade. John Murphy is lead out in chains and sits down at the defence table next to Jacobs, the lawyer. Clarke examines him visually and decides he is doing OK. The result of the trial is what she is worried about; medical had already cleared him for trial
There have been no attacks on Anya and Clarke and Abby think their plan of talking to Jaha had worked. Anya was allowed to stay. For now.
The jury consists of a group of 7 people, while the judge is Marcus Kane. Clarke is sure that is not the way a legal system is supposed to work. The current leader who also acts as judge? But who was she supposed to protest to?
Marcus clears his throat and welcomes everybody to the trial and will the defendant please rise. Murphy gets up and he looks almost bored. Clarke is sure it is a coping mechanism. She nods at him and he nods back.
Kane starts proceedings after a formal introduction "Please let the prosecution call their first witness"
"We call Bellamy Blake, Chancellor"