Chapter 8
Kane and Abby walked into the command centre and went to the communit and pushed the button for Arkwide. All within the command centre stopped and watched him, wondering what he was doing.
"Citizens of the Ark, I am Marcus Kane. Chancellor Thelonius Jaha has been arrested and stripped of his position as Chancellor. He has lied to all of us. The air is running out. Do not panic! The air will last for at least 15 more months. What we need to do now, is to figure out how to extend it or how to get to the ground. One thing I am going to do is make sure that all of you are consulted on anything we do about the air. There will be a stay of execution for those in the skybox until their crimes have been looked at again. One of the council members will be heading up that investigation and will choose people from all of the Ark, not just Alpha. Those children deserve to have their crimes and convictions looked into." Kane waited a few seconds and then continued.
"Jaha and I sent four people to the ground to test for viability - to see if it's survivable. If we can't live up here, we need to live down there. Jake Griffin was one of those people along with Aurora Blake, Raven Reyes and Solange Armstrong. I didn't know that the radio they had been sent down with had been sabotaged by someone on the Ark. Luckily, Raven Reyes found enough spare parts down there to build a radio. They have talked to us so we know they've survived. The air is breathable, the water is drinkable and the animals and some of the plants are edible. The Earth can sustain human life once more!" This time, whispers around the room were heard, they were whispers of excitement.
"We need to focus on our survival and I want every person on the Ark to go down. Jaha had plans to only have his people go down and the rest of us would be left up here to die. I won't let that happen. Every life is important, every life matters! I want each section chief to report to the large conference room in factory station on Tuesday at 9am. We will work out what we need and what we can do without. After that we will be talking about ideas to get ALL of us down. As of now, I am the Chancellor and I will do my damndest to save us ALL. Thank you." Kane shut off the community and turned around.
"Anyone have a problem with me as Chancellor?" Everyone looked at each other, but no-one said anything. "Good, Commander Shumway, I want you to find the traitor who sabotaged that radio." Shumway nodded and left. Abby went over to Kane and said in a whisper.
"Do you trust him?"
"No, but I had to give him something to do. I want to find out if he's involved in all this." Abby nodded before going home.
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Monty led Harper, Erin and Octavia through the Ark to Orchid station and Raven's den. He showed them what to do if Raven radioed through and then they sat around talking.
"Can I ask a stupid question?" asked Erin.
"What?" asked Monty.
"Why are we waiting for them to radio us, instead of just calling them?" Monty and Harper sat back in surprise.
"I didn't think of that!" said Monty.
"I think it's because we had to wait for Raven to build her radio and it was up to her to contact us," mused Harper.
"So what's stopping us now?"
"Nothing," said Monty, reaching for the radio.
"Come in Raven, Come in Raven, are you there?" He waited for a few seconds before repeating it.
"I'm here, Monty," said Raven.
"Good, listen, something's happened up here, something big. Are you all there?"
"Hang on and I'll round them up," said Raven.
"Okay," replied Monty.
"Okay, gang's all here," Raven said a few minutes later. Monty handed the mike to Erin.
"Hey, sis, how are you doing?" Erin said, grinning.
"Erin!" said Sol in surprise. "What are you doing there?"
"Kane let me go, Sol."
"What!"
"Look, we've got a lot to tell you so let me just get it out and you can ask questions later, okay?"
"Yeah, okay," said Sol.
"Good. First off, Kane led - well it was more of a one man coup. Kane staged a coup and had Jaha arrested and was voted in as the Chancellor. Jaha never even knew it was coming!" Erin said, laughing. "He and Abby then came to the prison and freed Clarke, me and Octavia. We're out guys!"
"Are you okay?"
"Sol, I'm fine, Octavia's fine, Clarke's fine, we're all fine!"
"Is Octavia there? Rory wants to speak to her daughter," said Sol, before handing the mike over to Rory.
"Octavia, honey?"
"Hey, mom, so good to hear your voice," Octavia said, practically jumping up and down.
"Oh, thank goodness. I was scared that this was just a dream - or a nightmare," said Rory.
"No, mom, this is real. Oh, by the way, when you talk to Bellamy, don't listen to him when he says I won't come home. I'm staying with Erin, she has the room, mom."
"What's wrong with our place?"
"Reclamation teams took your bed, leaving only Bellamy's bed behind. I'd have to sleep on the couch and I know Bellamy would be checking on me every few minutes."
"Well cut him some slack, honey. He watched you be arrested and now you're out, he wants you close."
"I know that, mom, but I have to find my own way. I don't have to be hidden under the floor anymore."
"I know, honey, it's just hard after doing that practically your whole life."
"I'll try if he will, mom. I love you."
"I love you too, Octavia. I can't wait to see you on the ground and give you a big hug."
"Same here, mom. I'm handing back to Erin now."
"Okay honey," Rory said, handing the mike back to Raven.
"Jake? Clarke's at your place at the moment. Abby is keeping her close."
"I figured she would. Tell her not to hold on too tight, though. Clarke needs her space."
"We will."
"Is that everything?"
"Yeah, we're still on for tomorrow night?"
"Yes. Oh, down here it's around two hours behind Ark time, so we'd need to adjust for that."
"Oh, okay. Monty, write that down, please and put it somewhere prominent so everyone can see it."
"Yep, on it."
"Alright, we'll make contact again tomorrow night at 8 pm our time, 6 pm your time" said Erin.
"Until tomorrow, sis. Love you."
"Love you too, bye."
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On the ground
Sol switched off the radio and sat back.
"Did you follow all that?" Sol asked the Commander.
"Most of it, but that's not how it happened last time."
"Well a lot of things are different this time," said Sol. "We came down a year earlier than last time, Kane led a one man coup and became Chancellor and there's the fact that Octavia and Clarke are no longer in prison. Do you think those 100 kids will still be sent down? How much different will it be this time around? I mean, if events are so different, you won't know what's about to happen, will you?"
"No," said the Commander.
"So we need to figure out what to do. We need to figure out some recall words. Raven needs to remember and probably Kane too."
"And Clarke," said the Commander.
"I agree," said Raven. "I think if we can get Octavia woken up too, then that'll be three people on board who can help with everything. We also need to tell them about the clans."
"Why?" asked Anya.
"Because those in charge of the Ark were arrogant last time around. You never met Abby, but she was just as bad as Jaha in some respects," said Indra
"Abby was?" asked Jake, astonished and curious.
"Yes, " said Indra. "Abby Griffin had lost her husband and her daughter was a changed woman. She was not the daughter that Abby remembered and she was trying to force Clarke back into that little girl role that Abby remembered. Clarke was the leader of the 100 and as far as we were concerned, the leader of the Skaikru - your people. Abby thought that because she was Chancellor, that made her above everyone else and she could order Clarke around. Clarke just ignored her or went behind her back. Good thing she did too, or my people would have slaughtered all of the Skaikru when they came down," Indra finished.
Jake was quiet as he digested the information.
"So Abby became Chancellor and… what? Decided that you weren't good enough for them to co-operate with?"
"Almost. She thought of us as primative, just because we don't use tek and use swords instead of guns. She wouldn't even meet us halfway on some issues. Clarke knew what needed to be done, but Abby was too sure of her own rightfulness that everyone else had to follow her because she knew what was best for all Skaikru. The goufa - children - of the 100 that weren't in the mountain had to sneak out of their camp by a piece of fencing away from the gate. They called that 'Raven's Gate'.
Raven reared back in remembrance. She gasped as images and memories flooded her mind.
"I remember!" she gasped. She held her head in her hands as the memories kept coming.
"Aargh!" She yelled. "Stop! Make it stop!" Raven fell to the ground and curled up into a ball, crying with the memories of all that had happened in a previous life. Rory, Jake and Sol rushed to her and were quietly comforting her.
"It's alright, Raven, you'll be okay."
"Let it out, you'll feel better."
"I'm here, I'm here."
A few minutes later Raven stopped shaking and just lay there for a few more minutes as she tried to make sense of all that had occurred in her last life.
"I'm good," she said, sitting up. "I'm good," she repeated.
"You remember?" asked Indra.
"Yes, I remember. I remember coming down in the pod. I remember waking up and there was Clarke. I got out of the pod and had a head injury, but I was looking up as drops of water fell on me." Raven gave a small laugh. "I remember asking Clarke if it was rain. Clarke was smiling. Then Finn burst through the bushes and called my name. I was so happy to see my boyfriend once again and I ran and hugged him. I found out later that day that he and Clarke had slept together. He never told her he had a girlfriend. It put a strain on our burgeoning friendship that I wish had never happened - the strain, not the friendship. Finn couldn't keep it in his pants for even a fortnight! I remember a lot, Indra, Commander."
"So you can verify some of the things we've told you," said the Commander. Raven nodded.
"It's all true guys, everything they've told us is true."
"How bad was it in the mountain?" asked Jake.
"As bad as it could get. I'm sorry Jake but Clarke really didn't have much choice in committing genocide. It was the mountain men or her mother and me. Abby was on a table next to me getting our legs drilled into for our bone marrow. Clarke was watching on a monitor and she had to make a decision, watch as they killed our people, or kill them to save our people. Most of us know she made the right choice, but Clarke didn't. She was so ashamed that she killed an entire culture, that she went off on her own for three months to try to deal with it. She thought she was a monster."
Jake was horrified to hear how bad it was for his family. It seemed like the ground changed them from the people he knew into people he didn't recognise.
"We have to try and stop that this time," Jake said.
"We will," said the Commander.
"We do the same again, Commander, you'd better not make a deal with the mountain!"
"Do not threaten the Commander!" yelled Anya. The Commander held up her hand to quieten Anya.
"I understand, Raven, but put yourself in my position, if they had come to you and made the same deal, would you have taken it? Bear in mind that it would free your people without having to fight anyone. No lives lost trying to free your people." Raven thought about it.
"I know what you're saying, Commander, but you also need to understand our side. We trusted you. You said that we'd bring that mountain down TOGETHER. You betrayed us and left us to die. Our alliance meant nothing to you!"
"The alliance meant everything to me!"
"Really? Because from what I saw, you used us to get near the mountain. You used us to get your people back and then you turned your back on us. Some alliance, Commander!"
"I did what was necessary to save my people!"
"And that's where we differ, Commander. We would have saved your people too, not just our own. Maybe you didn't need us, but we needed you! We needed you to survive, we needed you to help keep the other clans from destroying us. All you cared about was your own people."
"That is my job, Raven. I look after my people!"
"And what about those of us who followed you because we were told that we would become the thirteenth clan? Did you even think of us?" The Commander sat back.
"No, no I didn't."
"Not even Clarke, the love of your life?" The Commander looked away, too ashamed of her actions to look at Raven or the others.
"I did what was necessary for my people," she said again.
"Did you even ask your people for their opinion? I mean if you were my Commander and you made the deal with the mountain men, I would have been so disappointed with you. This would have been our one chance to destroy the mountain and you made a deal with them - the enemy we wanted to destroy! Did you think they would honour the deal?"
"No," admitted the Commander. "I knew they would not."
"So why make it?"
"To save my people held within the mountain."
"So to save a few hundred and keep your people out of the mountain, you made a deal. Did you even consider the consequences of that deal? Our bone marrow means they walk the ground without suits. They can come out of the mountain and live on the ground instead of under it. What do you think they would have done then? Stay on their mountain and live there, or use their weapons of mass destruction and slaughter the clans and take your land?" Everyone was silent as the Commander thought it through.
"I took the opportunity they gave me," she said eventually.
"Keeping us out of their hands was your salvation too, Commander. Without our people, they could not come out of the mountain. This was the one chance to strike a blow for all the clans. Each clan would have lost people, but I bet each one would say the same thing. To get rid of the mountain men once and for all, it would have been worth it!" The Commander was quiet as she contemplated her action and the unforeseen consequences that the Skaikru seemed to have seen.
"I was wrong," she said. "This time, I will not make the deal. This time, as soon as Emerson comes out to make the deal, I'll kill him and use the door he came out of to enter the mountain and kill them all." Raven and the other sky people sat back and nodded, satisfied with the outcome.
Indra and Anya on the other hand were horrified to hear the Commander admit she was wrong. The Commander was always right - even when she was wrong. They looked at each other and knew that if anyone else had heard, they would be doubting the Commander's ability to lead them. If Azgeda heard, it would end up in all out clan wars.
"I think I need to think about this a bit more. Tell me, Raven, are you going to question every decision I made?" asked the Commander.
"Only the bad ones, Commander. Some of the decisions you made were good ones," Raven said, smirking.
"You know, between you and Clarke, it's a wonder people even know I'm the leader!" The Commander said facetiously. Raven and the others laughed.
"Don't worry, Commander, I know who's in charge and even if I don't like your decisions, in front of others, I'll be all deferential and stuff."
"Good, otherwise I'd have to punish you and you know what that means."
"Yeah, thanks for the reminder," said Raven, rubbing her arms where she swore she could still feel the cuts.
"Good enough," said the Commander. "Now let's eat!" They ate a meal and then went to bed. Each of them thinking about what had happened a few minutes before - especially Raven and the Commander. It would be an uncertain day in the morning, each person going over what they remember and trying to second guess if they did the right thing.
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On the Ark
Monty, Harper, Erin and Octavia decided that they didn't really need to keep a watch for the radio, but Erin said they'd better stay by it in case of emergency. Monty and Harper agreed. They left to inform Kane of the radio transmission before going to their homes. They went to Kane's quarters and he answered the door.
"Hey, Kane, can we talk?" Kane opened the door.
"Where's Callie?" asked Harper, looking around and not seeing her.
"She's gone to visit her aging mother. She'll probably spend the night there."
"Good," said Monty as he sat down.
"We've been in contact with the ground again," he said.
"They radioed?"
"Well, no we radioed them. We told them about you being Chancellor, Jaha's arrest and the three girls being released. We didn't tell them anything else. We thought they had a right to know that their loved ones were free, Kane."
"They did need to know, but next time, can you tell me before you do that," Kane said.
"Kane, we can't ask your permission each time we need to do something," said Monty. "We need to be able to work on our own initiative and not wait for an adult to say it's okay to do what we need to do!"
"You can't just do what you like, Monty," Kane started.
"I'm not saying that, Kane, but we do need to do things without asking you first. What happens if they call up and want to talk to Abby or Bellamy. Do I find you first and ask your permission for those people to talk to their loved ones?"
"No, but that's something personal."
"Kane, if things go wrong up here, you need people who can do things when they are needed. Can you say that if Shumway tried to free Jaha and we could stop him, we should find you and ask first?"
"No, but that's dangerous."
"Kane, everything's dangerous up here! With Jaha and Shumway doing whatever it is they are doing, we have no idea what's going to happen. If Jaha is let out, he'll try to take over again and he'll probably lead a revolt. It'll be all out civil war and we don't know which side anyone is on!"
Kane thought about it.
"We need to find out."
"How?" asked Harper.
"I have no idea," said Kane, shrugging.
"Well we'll go. They'll radio us at 6pm their time, 8pm our time," Monty said.
"Huh?"
"There's a two hour time difference to the ground, Kane. We are two hours ahead of them."
"How do you know?"
"Raven said."
"Okay, I'll see you tomorrow. Where do I meet you?"
"Orchid Station," replied Monty. "We'll meet you in corridor A and we'll guide you from there," he said. He'd go back in the morning and move the radio to their meeting room instead of showing Kane, Raven's den.
"That's fine," he said, getting up and showing them out.
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On the ground
The following day at 6pm Earth time and 8pm Ark time, Raven radioed the Ark.
"Come in Monty, come in Monty, you there?"
"I'm here, Raven," he said. "We all are."
"Who's there with you?" asked Raven.
"There's me, Harper, Bellamy, Octavia, Erin, Clarke, Abby and Kane."
"Oh, good, I really don't want to say this countless times. We are not alone down here."
"What?!" said Monty as did Kane.
"I said, we're not alone down here. There are people living down here and have since the war ended." Kane and Abby were shocked and the others weren't much different.
"Are you okay down there?" asked Monty.
"Yeah, they took us in," Raven said.
"I don't know what to say," said Monty.
"We can tell you about them later, in the meantime I'm afraid I've got another shock for you - and not one I can prove at the moment."
"Which is?"
"We've lived this life before," Raven said. "I'm not making this up, guys, I remember that last life and it didn't end well for anyone." No-one spoke for a few seconds while they digested that.
"Is there anything you can prove?"
"I don't know. I came down about twelve days after 100 hundred child prisoners were sent to the ground to see if it was survivable. Clarke, Octavia, Monty and Harper were four of them. Bellamy snuck on board with the help of Shumway after he shot Jaha. Shumway had threatened Octavia's life if he didn't." Bellamy and Octavia looked at each other.
"I would have done anything to make sure you were safe, O," Bellamy said.
"Why were we sent down?" asked Clarke.
"Because you were expendable and would have just been floated on your 18th birthdays, anyway."
"Jaha was that callous?"
"It wasn't just Jaha, it was Kane too. After we were sent down, they drew up plans to have 320 people floated in sector 17 when there was a 'malfunction'. All the council were in on this including Abby."
"I wouldn't!" said Abby.
"You did. In fact you were one of the people we fought against the most when you came down. I'm sorry, but you were acting just like Jaha: do as I say, I'm in charge and therefore I know what's best for my people'. You stopped Clarke from making peace with the grounders - Trikru and you forgave Finn when he massacred 18 unarmed people. He gunned down women, children and old people who were scared of the guns. One boy ran and Finn opened fire. Those people wanted justice - one life, Finn's - and they'd let the rest of us live. You and I refused to hand him over and the clans declared war and they came to annihilate us. It was only when Finn gave himself up and Clarke negotiated with the Commander that we had our peace. You, though, wanted to kill them all because they killed some of us. We killed some of them too, but Clarke was willing to live and let live, you and Bellamy weren't."
"I think we've got a lot to learn about this second life. I don't say I believe it, but we should know what could happen, just in case," said Kane.
"Agreed," said Raven. For now though, I'll turn the mike over to Rory," Raven said before she gave it over.
"Bellamy, Octavia? You there?"
"Hi, mom," they said in unison.
"It's so good to hear your voices," she said with relief.
"Same here, mom," they said.
"I want you two to play nice, do you understand?"
"Yes, mom," they said again in unison.
"Octavia, don't stay away from Bellamy as you assert your independence and Bellamy, your sister doesn't need to be hidden anymore so please stop trying to keep her too close."
"Okay mom, I'll let her be herself, but I'm not going to stop worrying about her," said Bellamy.
"Okay mom," said Octavia.
"Good, I'm handing over to Jake now."
"Hey, family," Jake said.
"Jake!"
"Dad!"
"I'm alive and well and on the ground. It's amazing down here. I can't wait until you come down to share it with me."
"I love you, Jake and I'm so sorry I went to Jaha about all this."
"You have nothing to be sorry for, honey. I know you wanted him to talk me out of it. You just didn't know what he was really like - neither did I. He was my best friend and he did that to me and put my daughter in prison. He is no longer my friend."
"Nor mine," said Abby.
"Nor mine," said Clarke. "Though Wells is still my friend."
"How is he dealing with his father being arrested?"
"He's coping. He knew his dad did the wrong thing and now he's realising that actions have consequences. Thelonious thought he was above the law, but Wells knew better. He'd been trying to tell his dad that, but Thelonious wasn't listening."
"I'm sorry, honey," Jake said.
"It's okay, dad. Now that I know you're alive, I can start to do things again."
"Good, I'm handing over to Sol.
"Hey Erin,"
"Hey, sis."
"Are you okay up there?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. Octavia's moved in and we're having fun."
"Good, you always did better with people around."
"Yeah."
"So anything else going on up there?"
"Not really," said Kane, taking over.
"Well, the people down here are telling us about their previous life, but not everyone remembers. In fact, there are only four of them that do and they only remember because they were… triggered… for the lack of a better word, by certain words or phrases. My recall words were 'Raven's Gate'."
"Raven's Gate?"
"Yeah. The Commander, Indra, Lincoln and Anya were all triggered by different ones. The trouble is that each was triggered by an association with that past life."
"I think some of you could be triggered too. We just have to find the right words. The only thing is that some of you did some really bad things and we don't know if they should remember what they did. Some of it's really, really bad."
"How bad?"
"One of you helped slaughter 300 SLEEPING warriors just because they were grounders and the people who killed them had a policy of kill them all and take their land."
"Who?"
"Not telling. Think about it Kane, if it was you, would you want to remember that? Would you want to remember the hatred you had for them?"
"No," he said, "I wouldn't."
"So, I think we should trigger only certain people."
"Who?"
"Kane, Clarke and Octavia. According to the clans, they are the ones who were trying to keep the peace between the Skaikru - Arkers - and the Trikru - those on the ground," replied Raven.
"What about the rest?"
"Some of them might not want to remember what was done to them by the mountain men. They killed some of us for our bone marrow. They didn't care that we were humans, they didn't care that we were children, they cared about getting out of the mountain and slaughtering the clans for their land. It's not a pretty picture they paint of life in that other time. In the end, another deathwave happened and every single person died."
"So that's going to happen again?"
"Not if we have anything to do with it," growled Sol in the background.
"So what do we do?" asked Kane.
"I'll need to talk to you, Clarke and Octavia alone to see if we can trigger you. If we can, you will have memories that are going to hurt. You will remember things you don't want to and remember things that you do."
"Is it safe?" asked Abby.
"Yeah, Abby, It's safe," said Jake. "We watched Raven go through it."
"Okay, when?"
"Now. The rest of you will have to leave the room." Abby, Monty, Harper, Erin and a reluctant Bellamy left the room and went back to their quarters to wait.
"We're alone now," said Kane.
"Good. We'll start with some of the names down here to see if that triggers any of you, okay?"
"Yeah, go ahead."
"Anya." Those on the Ark looked at each other in confusion.
"No, that didn't work."
"Okay, let's try Lexa." Up on the Ark they heard Clarke gasp as she started to remember.
"I know her!" Clarke said. "I remember!"
"You do?" asked Raven.
"Yeah, yeah, I do. God, guys, she's right, we have lived before."
Raven motioned the Commander nearer and held the mike towards her.
"Hold this button to talk and let go to listen, okay?" The Commander nodded. She pressed the button.
"Clarke?"
"Lexa!" Clarke exclaimed. "I remember!"
"Do you remember what you said to me just before you left when Arkadia was blockaded?"
"Yeah I do. I said 'Ai hod yu in'."
"Yes, you did. Thank you for remembering."
"Lexa, I'll never stop loving you, even when I forget about you."
"You are my soulmate."
"As you are mine," replied Clarke, starting to tear up. A lone tear rolled down her cheek and she sniffed. "Happy tears, Lex, happy tears." The Commander laughed and handed the mike back to Raven.
"Okay, speaking of soulmates, Octavia, you're up," said Raven.
"I'm ready," Octavia said.
"Lincoln," said Raven. Again the effect was immediate.
"I remember him! He's my soulmate!"
"That's why I said his name. The other name I was going to use might be the one to trigger Kane."
"Really?" said Kane.
"Yes. We'll wait until Octavia's processed it a bit before we try to trigger you."
"Okay."
"Octavia? What do you remember about the first time you met Lincoln?"
"He kidnapped me. I remember that, but then again, he was trying to heal my injury and we couldn't communicate at the time, 'cos I thought he couldn't speak English."
"Correct," said Raven. "You okay?"
"Yea, yeah, I'll be fine. Is Lincoln there?"
"No, sorry, O. We haven't seen him yet. According to Anya, he's off teaching some goufas to be healers down near Broadleaf territory. He should be back in a couple of months for winter."
"Okay, when he's back, I want to know though. I have a few words to say to him."
"No problem."
"I can guess which name might trigger Kane, can I say it?"
"Sure," replied Raven.
"Indra," said Octavia. Kane gasped as he remembered his best friend.
"She's okay?" he asked. Once again Raven held the mike out to Indra.
"Hello Marcus," she said.
"Indra! It's so good to hear your voice!"
"Good to hear yours too, Marcus."
"I can't wait to see you all again," Kane said.
"Us too," said Indra, handing back the mike.
"Okay. All three of you now remember. Do you understand now why we didn't want the others to remember?"
"Mom, Bellamy and Harper, I can understand. Mom and Bellamy did some things that were not good, but then again, so did I, and Harper doesn't need to remember what was done to her in the mountain."
"We all did some bad things, Clarke."
"But why not Erin or Monty?"
"Erin and Sol came down in Factory Station," Raven said. The three on the Ark knew that meant they had died in the crash.
"Sorry," said Kane. "What about Monty?"
"There's no reason for him not to, but he was the one who programmed the mountain's computers so that Clarke could pull that lever."
"Okay, so that's not a nice memory to have."
"And what about killing his own mother?" asked Raven. "I mean what's he going to be like when he remembers killing her and then she walks in the door?"
"Yeah, there's that too," sighed Clarke. "Okay, just us three."
"Good. Now when things start to happen that you know about, you can try to stop it."
"We will," replied Kane.
"Good, we'd better sign off for now. We need to go hunting, the summer's coming to an end and winter will be upon us in no time. We have to prepare."
"Okay. When do we radio again?"
"Unless there's an emergency, how about each Sunday at the same time?"
"That'll work," said Kane.
"Bye for now," said Raven, echoed by the others on the ground.
"Bye," the three on the Ark said before shutting down the radio.